Al Robertson opened up about Lisa Robertson’s infidelity 15 years into their marriage, saying the hardest moment pushed them toward honesty, counseling, renewed vows—and a relationship he says is stronger now than ever.
When Al Robertson’s marriage hit its breaking point, it wasn’t a quiet unraveling. It started with suspicion, denial, and a truth he said he eventually pieced together through cellphone records—nearly two decades before he and Lisa Robertson would put their story at the center of a new documentary.
In an interview for their upcoming documentary *Faith & Forgiveness*. Al Robertson reflected on one of the most difficult moments in his marriage: Lisa’s infidelity. which occurred 15 years into their time together.. Instead of driving them apart. Al says it became a turning point that forced both of them to confront their mistakes and rebuild.
“I think the reason I was willing to fight for my marriage was that I had made a lot of mistakes on my own,” Al Robertson said.
He described the version of Lisa he met early on, when she was still looking for the kind of leadership she called a “knight in shining armor.”
“When I first met Lisa. she was actually a good girl. who had experienced some hard things in her life up until that point. but really was looking for what she called her ‘knight in shining armor. ’ someone to take her hand and lead her out of some things.. And I just wasn’t that guy in the early years.”
That admission set the tone for how he framed the aftermath: not as a simple betrayal story, but as a marriage crisis that demanded accountability.
### The path to truth
Al and Lisa Robertson first met in a McDonald’s parking lot in West Monroe, Louisiana, when he was 17 and she was 15. After their relationship went through an on-and-off phase, they married in 1984. The couple later welcomed two daughters, and Al became a pastor at a family church.
But Lisa said she began feeling alone and disconnected while Al was frequently away.
“To be quite honest with you, I made a huge mistake in not pulling Lisa in as a partner in what we were doing, in my career and my dreams,” Al said. “She was also dealing with all this internal stuff from when she was young. I just didn’t recognize it. I didn’t see it.”
Lisa added that the infidelity wasn’t something that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She told Fox News Digital that even before the affair, she had been carrying trauma she never fully healed from.
“From an early age, at age 7, I was subjected to someone [abusing] me,” Lisa said.. “I believe that at age 7, I began to be dishonest with who I was and what I was.. I think the evil one played a huge part in that because he would constantly remind me.. I believe I started on that trail of dishonesty at that point, and that darkness really began there.. As I grew older, it got worse and worse.”
Years later, Lisa said she reconnected with an old boyfriend and found herself tangled in an affair. In the summer of 1999, Al began to suspect she was seeing someone else, though she denied it each time.
He said the truth surfaced only after he pieced it together through cellphone records. Once she confessed, the couple agreed to temporarily separate.
### What pushed them back together
In the weeks that followed, Al described wavering between heartbreak and uncertainty—especially around trust.
“I think for the first few weeks, I was leaning toward thinking that it was probably over,” Al recalled.. “I was just not sure if I could ever fully trust again.. [I wasn’t] sure Lisa really wanted to be in our marriage.. Do you really know if your spouse wants to stay?. Do they want something more than you have to offer?”
Lisa said she reached a different turning point spiritually. She described asking God for forgiveness and guidance—something she said she had never done in the same way before.
“I’d never asked for His help and asked Him to rescue me. [But] He came, and He rescued me.”
After she was baptized, the couple began counseling sessions. Al said the work paid off: by December 1999, they had renewed their vows.
Since then, they’ve shared their story with couples struggling to keep marriages intact.
Today, they say their relationship is stronger than ever.
“To have a really strong and very intimate marriage — not just s***** intimacy. I mean spiritual. physical and emotional intimacy — there has to be honesty. ” Lisa Robertson said.. “Honesty is the most important thing that you can do to have a very successful marriage.. We also need to look at ourselves the way Jesus looks at us.”
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