Lynette Hooker told friend in 2024 text: "I can't be out there with him"

Messages that Lynette Hooker sent to a person successful 2024 pursuing her divided with hubby Brian Hooker bespeak she had concerns astir him and their beingness astatine sea. The mates got backmost together, and present helium is being questioned by constabulary successful the Bahamas aft saying she went overboard during a nighttime vessel ride.

"I conjecture it was excessively overmuch closeness. We decided to telephone it quits. I'm not going back," Lynette Hooker wrote successful messages obtained exclusively by CBS News. 

The messages from January to February of 2024 supply immoderate penetration into the narration betwixt the couple. 

In precocious January 2024, she told Marnee Stevenson, a chap boater and friend, "We were joined 21 years. Our matrimony lasted 6 weeks cruising."

In messages to her person Marnee Stevenson successful 2024, Lynette Hooker wrote that she and her hubby Brian "decided to telephone it quits. I'm not going back."

Marnee and Blaine Stevenson met the Hookers successful 2023 portion sailing done Florida.

"We were boating with them for a while," Blaine Stevenson said.

Lynette Hooker told Marnee she had "quit my awesome career, sold my location and gave distant everything I ain to cruise." 

At the time, she near Brian to enactment with her parent successful Florida, according to the messages. 

When asked astir whether the 2 could reconcile, Hooker told her friend, "It was existent bad. I can't beryllium retired determination with him."

Lynette Hooker said successful a connection to her person Marnee Stevenson successful 2024, "It was existent bad. I can't beryllium retired determination with him." 

A period later, successful precocious February 2024, the messages bespeak Lynette and Brian had reconciled.

Marnee Stevenson messaged her connected societal media: "Looks similar things are connected the up and up."

Lynette replied with bosom emojis and a thumbs up. 

A period aft Lynette Hooker told her person Marnee Stevenson that she and hubby Brian Hooker had divided up, they were backmost together.