How Infidelity Tore Apart a Pastor's Marriage | Iyanla: Fix My Life | Oprah Winfrey Network

let's go do we don't have all day finish every Sunday morning pastor Patrick Dennis prepares for his sermon as his wife Natasha and their three children get ready for church did you brush your teeth but for the last eight months this couple has been keeping a secret they have been living apart while pretending to their church that they are still together I am very nervous we're headed to the church for morning worship the church doesn't know what separated the members think there were one big happy family what's gonna be further from the truth right now I dropped the ball I betrayed her trust I mean I've messed up in ways unimaginable pastor Dennis admits to cheating on his wife many times he says there's been about 20 women that he's had affairs with during his 10-year marriage to Natasha pastor Dennis says several of those weller on members of his congregation one of his Affairs resulted in a child after learning about her husband's repeated infidelity Natasha decided to move out and she says she's also had an affair now Natasha is torn between trying to fix her marriage or moving on so I'm on my way to see Natasha she's the wife that wrote me about her troubled marriage now Natasha is not only a wife she's the wife of a minister which makes her the first lady of a church now in the deep south in a Baptist Church that is a huge responsibility but what I wanted is if Natasha is ready to step out of image into the reality of her life hello how are you I'm good give me big old hub mm how you doing okay good I'll get you a tissue oh my lord I just walk in the door you start weeping people gonna wonder what I did to you Wow a lot going on yes it is a lot going on but I'm okay is that you are you okay most days do you get that it's okay if you're not okay I've never heard that before yeah because I think sometimes is like women we make ourselves okay with stuff that just ain't okay yeah what is going on in your life that you were motivated to write me I have been separated from my husband who is a senior pastor for eight months uh we've been living separately but in public we act as though we're still married and you've been living separately in this apartment I've been in this apartment and I have the children we have three children on the weekends they're supposed to go with their dad so you've been married what nine years ten years ten years it'll be 11 years a few months and why are you separated because of continuous infidelity with um many different women Wow but then come Sunday morning and come Sunday morning church time great we go to church like everything's okay and we go to churches though we're still one big happy family so tell me about that drive mmm I dread it I feel like I'm going to life are you going to lie to lie you know you're not going to lie but you're going to church to lie mm-hmm can I hear you saying going to church to life

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Length: 4min 36sec (276 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 10 2012