On this week’s episode of the Facebook show, Jada and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, spoke to couple’s therapist Esther Perel about infidelity and relationships.
When the topic of infidelity came up, Jada said that she could “relate.”
“I’m asked a lot about, ‘Is there infidelity in your relationship with Will?'” she said. “And it’s like, ‘No, but there’ve been other betrayals of the heart that have been far bigger than I could even think in regards to an infidelity.'”
How does Jada feel about infidelity?
Though Jada said that Will has not cheated on her, she doesn’t necessarily feel that infidelity is the end of a relationship.
“What are the alternatives to divorce?” she asked Perel. “Everybody thinks as soon as you find out there’s been an affair you have to get a divorce.”
Perel replied that infidelity doesn’t have to break up a marriage.
“I’m not of that persuasion because I think there are many relational betrayals,” she answered. “Contempt, neglect, and violence and indifference and nobody tells people, ‘Leave, leave, get the hell out.'”
“And especially on women, it’s the real new pressure. God forbid you still love the person who actually cheated on you. Maybe that person is a lot of things and cheated on you. It’s like the shame of staying, now that you can go you’ve got to get out.”