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Kris Armstrong says she has experienced the best — and worst — of social media since she decided to open up about her ex-husband's traumatic brain injury, learning to be his legal guardian and caretaker and then remarrying a spouse who helps care for him, too.
Some commenters felt it was cruel to put Brandon Smith, her ex, in public in light of his disabilities. Others applauded Kris and James Armstrong’s selflessness in light of such sudden challenges. Everyone had an opinion.
“It’s been challenging at times, because there’s a lot of people that are just really ugly, calling us ‘adulterers,’ but you have to ignore those people,” James, Kris' second husband, said in an interview when PEOPLE first shared their story last year.
“The whole reason [my wife] started this TikTok is because she wanted to create a community of people who maybe are going through the same thing,” James, who works on compressors and generators for an oil rig contractor, said then.
A year later, Kris, 40, is reflecting on their lives today and says the positive effects of telling their story far outweigh the negative comments they have gotten.
“I think the story gets skewed and people think Brandon is being forced to be around me and my husband. I don’t even think Brandon knows James is my husband,” she says. “But the positivity and the kindness is the thing that has shown brighter than anything else to me in sharing our story.”
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