Jessi tells Layla in the first episode that she buried the news of her affair with Marciano because her and Jordan were going to stay together.
“We didn’t need outside opinions and voices,” Jessi said.
Jordan told Jessi there are “dark parts” of him that don’t want to work on the marriage anymore and Jessi later opened up about “emotional abuse” in their marriage.
“The question I have to ask myself is if you’re the person I still want to be with,” Jordan tells Jessi in episode one.
Throughout the season, Jessi and Jordan get into fights over the Marciano issue and even separate. In episode 4, Jessi tells the rest of the women that they’re doing “two nights on, two nights off” and it’s hardest to imagine her life without Jordan when she’s at home doing bedtime alone with the kids.
“Infidelity is definitely frowned upon in the church and I’m really afraid of the backlash that’s going to come with it,” Jessi says in the first episode. “I’ve worked really hard to earn [Jordan’s] trust back and now it feels like all of that progress is going to go out the window.”
In the series finale, Jessi notes that the couple’s 90-day separation is coming up and she needs to make a decision about the future of their marriage. She says if it was up to Jordan they’d already be back together, but she’s feeling a lot of pressure and unsure of what she wants.
During a conversation in the finale, Jordan said the 90 days gave him a chance to realize how much he loves her and wants to make their marriage work.
“Not out of necessity but because that’s what I want,” Jordan says. “I can’t imagine my life without you and I believe we both deserve to put what’s happened behind us and try to move forward from it.”
Jessi said her “biggest fear” is that they get back together and fall back into their old ways. However, she said the couple has worked on communication and if they’re both putting work in they “deserve to give it a chance.”
At the end of the season, Jordan moves back in and he said he’s “over the moon” to have the chance to work on their marriage.