Months after admitting to exchanging explicit text messages with another woman, Jim Edmonds and his Real Housewives of Orange County wife, Meghan King Edmonds, have called time on their tumultuous marriage.
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According to Us Weekly, a day after celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary, the professional baseball player filed for divorce after the pair got into an argument so heated, the police were called.
“Meghan and Jim have been fighting,” the source told Us days after Meghan revealed she and Jim were in counselling to try and repair their damaged relationship. “The latest fight began when he went to a recent hockey game and she began interrogating him about who he went with.”
The former couple share three children together— Aspen, two-and-a-half, and one-year-old twin sons Hayes and Hart.
Fans of the former couple know their marriage imploded earlier this year when he confessed he’d been sending raunchy text messages to another woman while his wife was heavily pregnant.
“I engaged in an inappropriate conversation with this person,” Jim told Us Weekly on June 13. “At no time was there any type of relationship or physical contact. Absolutely none. This is someone trying to profit from my name. I am aware she has done this to others in the past.”
Meghan later blogged about the experience, admitting Jim tried to play the situation down.
“Do I believe him? I don’t know. Because I don’t trust him anymore. Physical or not, he still had an affair and he admits this to me,” she said, adding, “A relationship takes two but it doesn’t take two to cheat. Ultimately, I have hope our marriage can recover.”
“I think after such a breach of trust, it’s so hard to rebuild from there, especially [with] so many distractions, like our son’s health problems and two other little babies as well. And so to focus on the two of us as a couple is really hard,” Meghan also told Bravo’s The Daily Dish.
“I think going to therapy is huge because I think a lot of men don’t like that,” she added. “So that’s been really big for me. And then, like little things to work on [as well]. Let’s say, I like things in the calendar and he doesn’t, [him] trying to put things in the calendar more. That’s not going to make or break a marriage, but little things add [up], like small acts of kindness.”
She continued: “I’m in no way taking responsibility from him or accountability—and if we were just dating, he would be long gone,” she said. “But we built a life together and there are so many lives that would be affected. I’m hurt right now and our life is massively affected, but if we were to split just because of his indiscretion, then there’s multiple other people who are affected, as well. So I owe it to not only myself and the commitment I made to my marriage to work on it, but I owe it to my children.”
Their marriage was hit with another blow last week, with the former Bravo star accusing her estranged husband of “having an affair” with their children’s nanny. According to Us Weekly, Meghan confronted Jim about the scandal, however, he denied his involvement in it.
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