Although they still love each other, Laurel and James Briggs, the parents of teenagers Josh and Danielle Briggs, ran into trouble in their marriage. Although Laurel from marriage counseling said she forgave James for only marriage rashness, she sometimes couldn't help opposing his feelings and her feelings. Resentment is spreading on both sides. James often accuses Laurel of putting her career above her family, while both deal with marital stress in contradictory ways. Just after she had a dispute with James over one of the conflict zones, Laurel left town during a two-day meeting and became the victim of another attendee, Kent Anderson, who had a sexual relationship with him, and she immediately regretted it. Although Laurel unequivocally told Kent that their contact was one of the night, he began to publicly pursue her, at least publicly hinting threats to her to expose their attempts.
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