“I know how much weight you have with it, how it affects you,” Mike told her. “You hold it against me and it creates this narrative that just isn’t accurate.”
“It’s just a last remaining thing conflicting between us that still lingers from our past,” he added. “I want to be able to relinquish both of us, all of us, from that. That’s the last lingering thing between us and my own pride and ego is destroyed [by] the fact that I am in a position where I need to take it, to be completely vulnerable. It is what it is.”
Despite their tumultuous breakup, Jana and Mike have worked to get to a better place. For instance, last year she detailed a small bonding moment between Allan and Mike over a beer and how it marked a sweet turning point in her blended family.
“I remember sitting there going, ‘This is really cool,’” she explained on her podcast at the time. “I never would have dreamt it this way, but I go, ‘This is cool.'”
Read on to learn more about Jana’s family.
