Amanda Stanton - Bachelor 20 - *Sleuthing - Spoilers*

iamreal2u wrote:IMO she went on this show to get a break from home life.  This a young women with two young kids and a broken marriage.  She got an opportunity to travel and get some me time and she took it.  Honestly she probably has a better perspective now and can be a better mom and possible mate to someone.

iamreal2u wrote:IMO she went on this show to get a break from home life.  This a young women with two young kids and a broken marriage.  She got an opportunity to travel and get some me time and she took it.  Honestly she probably has a better perspective now and can be a better mom and possible mate to someone.

In the evening Amanda shares the details of why her marriage didn't work out. Wow, talk about one blow after another.

"He has a very addictive personality and wasn't always the nicest person to me."
"He always had other priorities other than me and the girls... He wanted to be doing something else with his life."
"I found an old cell phone of his and there were a bunch of text messages from ex-girlfriends and girls he was meeting on online dating sites... It wasn't easy. I didn't want to break up our family. That was the hardest point in my life. I was just so unhappy."
"I never wanted to be, like, a single mom. I always had this picture in my mind of being this perfect family and I wanted it so bad."
"There was a time when I was embarrassed, because I felt like such a failure and, like, somebody thinking I was married and didn't take it seriously."


I've got to give this girl MAJOR credit. She is such a self-assured and confident person, you would never know what she's been through, especially at 25. It would be difficult enough to have dealt with that sort of crumbling relationship without two children. I honestly can't even fathom it. She tells her story matter-of-factly but never coldly. She's sensitive sans the self-pity.