Trecina "Tina" Atkins-Campbell is 1/2 of the Urban Contemporary Gospel duo, Mary Mary (pictured below, on the left)
What Happened?
In a June 2013 interview, Tina Campbell disclosed to Ebony Magazine about infidelity within her marriage.
She detailed her feelings about “trying to stab her husband” and cutting him with words to make him feel inferior.
In a separate interview with CNikki, the WE TV reality star suddenly had a change of heart and took full responsibility for why her husband cheated on her multiple times.
Tina later said,
“I, Tina, assume full responsibility for the issues that I contributed to the relationship. I was controlling, talked too much. And you can never be heard over me because when I wanna talk I got the floor and ain’t nobody gonna get it from me until I give it up. Real talk. That was the way it was and I have to work on myself. You know what I mean?” Campbell explained. “I was selfish. When we started having children it’s like, I forget that I have a responsibility as a wife. And I’m questioning you like, ‘Really, what you want me to do? I gotta baby!’ Even though that’s sometimes what you’re faced with, that ain’t the right spirit to do it in. And what happens is, you’re going on and you’re busy and you’ve got children and you’ve got work. And what happens is your husband is last and you don’t realize that he’s last. And if he has a problem with being last you’re like, ’Well, what am I supposed to do? You know that I’ve got a career? You know that I’ve got these babies, you’re the one that got me pregnant!”
Earlier in the season, Tina's sister, Erica Campbell, also confessed on their TV show that she too dealt with infidelity issues within her marriage.
Erica then urged her sister to do what she did when faced with infidelity (e.g. combat feelings with faith), which did not change Tina's thought process about her situation at the time.
It is evident that religion is causing most of the duo's dilemmas, in terms of, finding a healthy balance between their households and their careers in ministry/music.
The video clip, below, further illustrates Tina's ambivalence about her faith as it relates to the infidelity in her marriage.
In the clip, Tina becomes very frustrated with the perception of her as a "saint" and simply wants to be "broken" for awhile.
However, that's a nearly unacceptable notion to religious Black folks as illustrated by Erica's robotic, bible thumping reaction to her sister's serious self-disclosure.
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