This single mom-of-two went from looking for the one to looking out for no. 1.
Amanda Trenfield, 46, says she has no regrets for leaving her longtime husband for a “soulmate” — who subsequently rejected her.
Trenfield made worldwide headlines last year after detailing the emotional saga in a memoir entitled, “When A Soulmate Says No.”
The Australian author was branded a “self-destructive sociopath” for describing how she ended her 14-year marriage to the father of her children due to an electric encounter with a hunky man known only as Jason.
However, despite the huge public backlash — and the heartbreak she endured after Jason rebuffed a romance — Trenfield has no remorse over her actions.
“I am proud of how I continue to navigate my life, respecting and honoring those closest to me,” the author declared in an Instagram post last week, marking a year since the release of her memoir.
“I continue to stand in my power, my truth and embrace my vulnerability and my strength as an imperfect but always evolving human,” she added.
Trenfield’s bombshell book caused outrage upon its release last May. In the tome, she described her encounter with “soulmate” Jason, which took place while she was at a dinner party with her husband.
“As I settled into my seat, I looked up and immediately lost my breath,” Trenfield wrote. “When our eyes met there was an instant familiarity that ran deeper than water-cooler chat. These eyes had locked before. Twelve years earlier. His name was Jason. I hadn’t forgotten.”
Trenfield did not explain the circumstances under which she previously met Jason, but said that she felt an immediate attraction and soon struck up a conversation with him.
“Over the course of the evening, my attraction to Jason developed. I soon became aware of his every breath and I unconsciously mirrored his pace,” Trenfield swooned. “I caught myself, embarrassingly, looking at his chest through his slim-fitted white evening shirt. Yes, he had a fit, toned and attractive body, but was it his chest I was drawn to?”
The pair continued to drink and talk into the night, with the author insisting that her attraction to Jason only intensified as the hours went by.
“By the time the group left the restaurant late in the evening, all my senses were on high alert. It was abundantly clear that the energy between Jason and me was somehow charged,” Trenfield alleged.
The pair ended the evening with a hug, as Trenfield whispered into Jason’s ear: “This isn’t over, I need to see you again.”
“I had never felt anything like this before. I had never experienced this sensation,” she gushed. “I now know without hesitation, without question, without any doubt in my mind, my body or my heart, that the energy we experienced that evening was our souls connecting. I left [the dinner party] a different woman.”
The author continued to coo over the intoxicating experience with Jason: “I knew in my heart, in my soul, in the very fabric of my being that I had profoundly changed. I couldn’t articulate the feelings, the sensations, the experience. The connectedness I experienced with Jason was at a level impossible to describe. All I knew for certain was that this one encounter, in the most unlikely of places, under the most unusual of circumstances, had dramatically altered my life.”
Less than a month later, Trenfield ended her 14-year marriage with her husband, despite not having had any further communication with Jason since the night of the dinner party.
“The woman who had always been so careful, so planned, so organized and so clear about the path her life would take, had just made the most dramatic decision of her life, one affecting those dearest to her — her family,” Trenfield candidly wrote.
However, the author was left humiliated and heartbroken when she told Jason that she had dropped everything to be with him — only for him to tell her he wasn’t interested in pursuing a relationship.
Tenfield’s story went viral on Twitter, with many mocking the mom’s heartbreak, claiming it was karma for walking out on her spouse.
“Of course [the soul mate] said no! She ghosted her husband after one night! I’d be afraid of dating someone with no object permanence, too,” one theorized.
“Lady your kids will read this one day and will know that you blew up the family because you got too horny on shiraz,” another sniped, telling Trenfield she should not have published such a shameless account.
The author hasn’t disclosed whether or not she is now dating someone else more than year on from Jason’s rejection. However, she does believe that her candid memoir has helped others stand in their truth.
“I’m proud my book is helping people understand who they are and why souls come and go from their life. I am proud my book is providing others the ability to see and honor different perspectives and to embrace personal growth and healing,” she wrote in her recent Instagram post.
One of Trenfield’s pals cheered her on in the comments section, saying: “Amanda, you have the courage most people wish they had. Too many people waste their lives living a lie.. It’s not easy being disrupters but the alternative is worse.”
