After 12.5 years, the cake was over between Sander and Linda, because the two of them were no longer in the relationship. “I think I did everything wrong according to the divorce handbook. That’s because there were others involved.” As she looks back on the period, Linda realizes that they lost each other during the relationship. “I threw myself onto someone else with an emergency to dampen the pain.”
She was terribly angry with her ex. Despite this, Linda had only one goal: to make the divorce so painless for her children. “That is only possible if you swallow that stupid anger.”
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“It is a wonder of God that the relationship between Jeroen and me has worked out well. It started in a way of: well, this is not going to be it.” Jeroen turned out not only to be a comfort patch to lick the wounds of the divorce. Although the beginning of their relationship does not deserve the beauty award, after thirteen years Linda is still happy with the composer.
“I was surviving”, the presenter looks back on the period just after the break. When she was with Jeroen, she felt just as good again. “It must have been very painful for Sander. (…) Even the dog. It is suddenly let out by another man.”
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