[Rollercoasterider]

Reminder: the series in tonight and for those in the Eastern Time Zone of the US and Canada, it starts in about 10 minutes. Though our episode is not until the 2nd hour.
I'm getting nervous!

Oh and they let me say something about the website during the interview, but odds are they will cut it out and nothing will be said about the website and forum and if there is, they probably won't provide the url or any sort of link.
I think the main way to promote will be through comments at those previews--link above. So I am encouraging you--and asking and begging --any of you who are willing, to comment on the preview at the OWN website with references to The Hero's Spouse--they may not allow links in the comments, I don't know.

[xyzcf]

Good Job RCR and Sweetheart! You were both very brave to go on TV with your story. Thank you.

[Rollercoasterider]

You saw it?
Were we the first or second couple in our show? I'm tired and I don't want to fall asleep--and it's still not on for 80 minutes. I'm taping it, but I want to see it as it airs first.

[Ready2Transform]

I just finished watching, GREAT job, both of you!  You are the second couple featured.  I am glad I DVR'ed it, as I could only watch about 10 minutes before getting emotional and needing to step away.  Knowing what a great person you are and how you took this experience and used it to help so many others, I was just really, really touched.  I have to commend Chuck for being so honest and not sugarcoating the 'bad' stuff.  I could see so much of my H's turmoil in keeping the double life going, and it actually gave me a lot of peace to hear how you were always on Chuck's mind, even when going through the motions in the other life.  Thank you both!

[calamity]

Will this be aired online or anything?  I don't have OWN.  If anyone finds a link please post it.

[justbelieve]

I found it but it doesn't play from that site in my country I really want to see it too!

[kikki]

I sadly found the same thing - not able to play it in my country either

[Rebel Yell]

I made sure to watch it. It's too bad MLC wasn't mentioned.
Great job IMO

[Rollercoasterider]

I don't know about down under, but I was told that it will eventually air in the UK. I read that the previews at OWN aren't working for down under--someone asked (maybe one of you guys) in the comments section. UGH.

But for those who can see the previews, they put up a much longer one that highlights the creative editing.
http://www.oprah.com/own-unfaithful/Chuck-and-Kenda-Ruth-Mistress-Ultimatum-Video
And boy was it creative. It doesn't just imply things, it flat out says things--I needed emergency surgery after an auto accident. Um, surgery was not emergency, it was after breaking my foot falling down the stairs and Chuck was living at home at the time, and the surgery was 4 weeks after the fall. It didn't even mention the real car accident that I was in that totaled our truck, but mentioned a near-miss and implied I needed surgery from it! Though the timing of the near miss was accurate, it was then that I let Chuck come home--and that was when he was home for a year and took the affair underground and it was a few days after that near-miss we called the cops on her.

But the FAKE (it was fake people!, okay sorry for the rant ) pregnancy was a year-and-a-half before that and I did not kick him out until two-and-a-half years after the fake pregnancy. But they made it sound like the fake came after the near-miss and cop calling and that I kicked him out because of it. No one watching that could estimate the timeline. And then they said we went to counseling for 2 years. That would be a good idea, but we did not go for even a full year. And he lived in an apartment at the beginning, not the end. And his affair did not go physical until he had been in his apartment for a month and until about 10 weeks after Bomb Drop.

I know they couldn't say the pregnancy was fake as though that were a fact, but I think it would have been better if they had said it was suspected to be fake to highlight what she was like. And absolutely nothing about Standing--about marriage advocacy. I know they want to leave it to the end to reveal if the couple stayed together or not, but they could have still put in some line about my belief system. As for MLC being mentioned, I thought that would have been a lucky break, but had no expectations other than an expectations that it wouldn't be mentioned.

But I'm still pleased with it. And I was especially pleased with that part where Chuck was saying how he was always thinking about me. Just because I knew that inside, it's nice to hear him say it. Though I don't think either of us could have sugar-coated anything. We were each interviewed for hours and hours and the interviewer was specific about the questions--asking us to describe how or what we felt and then often we repeated answers in different ways.

Then at the end they have you say a series of phrases that they can use to edit in. Things like
a month later
and then
the next day
I'd never felt such pain in my life
it hurt more than anything I had ever felt
That's how they were able to say that the pregnancy was a month later.

[OldPilot]

I posted a comment on the above link, we shall see if they allow it as it has a link to the main website and your story.