Melissa said she already had the whole story planned when she started it, but from what happened during the story, she probably wanted to embellish it a bit more than she should have, and to avoid losing track of the story, she started using the famous gaps. Going back a bit to the story, from what I've read, Andrew loved his wife so much that he confessed his mistake to her and asked her to forgive him. She forgave him, but always reminded him of his mistake. That's not forgiveness. The truth is, his wife didn't truly love him. She never confessed her own mistakes, as he did to her, and always played innocent, saying she was hurt, but always placing all the blame on him. She told him she sided with him and defended him because her friends didn't like him, probably not even her. Marina was using him under the pretext of marriage and her uncle's gift to change her routine. Perhaps these friends she speaks of were the people she used to have fun with during nights out at nightclubs without Andrew around, because at the first opportunity she abandoned him and ended up in a nightclub, hooking up with James, later having fun with the inspector and flirting with other men. This is the life Mariana longs for, not that of a married woman. Now, Melissa has distorted things a lot and ended up ruining the context of the story. We know Emory helped her create the story, it's not for nothing, but seeing how Emory reproduces her stories, Aphrodite Mirror would probably have a much better plot in her hands.