Raeleigh Jane married Matthew Good April 15, 2010.
They started dating in 2008. Rae was/is Jenny Beth‘s friend – so that is how Matthew Good met his second wife.
How ‘abusive’ could Matthew Good have been – if his first wife Jenny Beth, and his second wife Raeleigh Jane were good friends… wouldn’t you assume Jenny would warn her friend Rae not to marry him and have his kids – if he was abusive?
Must Love Dogs
In February 2006 Jenny Beth and Raeleigh did a podcast together, and Rae rescued some dogs. Matt and Jen paid for the medical care and adopted one of the dogs, according to Rae’s blog back then. In 2006 Raeleigh was married to a man named Nick and they had a daughter named Avery.
How do I know all this? I was around when it all happened. I was there and I was in communication with Matthew as his friend during 2005-2009. I could go into far more details here but that is the reality. I was there.
Sometime in 2008 Matthew started dating Raeleigh. I remember the day, when he posted that picture of her on his site, and the fans went loco wondering who she was.
By 2009 I was pregnant and that was when I stopped talking to Matthew. We were both moving on in our lives. I had a baby in 2010.
Matt and Rae married in April 2010. In October 2010 they purchased a farm house, her dream home in Mission, British Columbia for $1,050,000, and she named it Lark Rise Horse House in 2012 – and began hosting photoshoots at the private home Location. I know all this because that address was public – which I always thought was strange.
You see, once you are tied to someone, particularly if you are still around the music scene, or blogger scene, folks hear about stuff and gossip. So whenever Matthew Good was in the news or some major gossip was circling in the scenes – someone would always drop it in my ear. Or I should say my inbox.
So as strange as it is – because of that fun fact about humanity – I happen to know a lot of these types of bit of information. I am offering this as a look into how public Matthew Good’s life was with both his ex-wives and it shows a happy family life.
So, yeah, that is the reality, Rae became a photographer and used their home to sell that experience.
There is also this website that shows some photos of the house, and animals of the farm, from February and March of 2012. There is a post about the design of her logo. Then there is Raeleigh’s Pinterest showing some examples of her photography work. Raeleigh even shows off some photos of her family and of Matt’s first ex-wife Jenny Beth – as they were/are friends. Rae is/was a great photographer.
The Dirty.com Scandal Days
So again, I have to wonder how ‘abusive’ could Matthew Good have been – if his first wife Jenny Beth, and his second wife Raeleigh Jane were friends… wouldn’t you assume Jenny would warn her friend Rae not to marry him and have his kids – if he was?
Just food for thought. Given the accusations of abuse that his accusers have stated – his accusers allege that Rae told them about being abused – Rae has never once come out and stated she believes these women. Which is think is interesting given how often his accusers bring her name into.
The Good family listed that house for sale in March 2014 – maybe that was spurred by the Dirty.com cheating scandal? The Dirty.com scandal was removed within a short time span after it happened. There are trace conversations about it in the forum on the fan site Near Fantastica. TheDirty.com story is now on this site, and you can go read the story on this website which also houses some screenshots of accusations against Matthew Good.
After the scandal, the house didn’t sell, then they listed again in 2015, and they sold the farm house in that year for $1,200,000. Matthew told me during our conversations, that the house and property had a lot of issues. I suspect there were also money issues going on but pride kept him from admitting that part. Matthew Good isn’t a financial success and clearly horrible at fiscal responsibility.
Note: All this real estate selling price information is available on realty sites. The addresses were/are public because Rae used the homes for her photography business.
In fact, legally speaking it looks like Rae began the separation process with Matthew Good in January 2015 even though it would seem she stuck it out a few years longer. The family moved to a new smaller, less expensive home, purchased for $439,580 in July 2015 and lived there until Matt moved out, back into his parents in 2017.
He explained all these details to me when Matthew and I started talking again in 2018, after we reconnected because of Tinder of all things. Except house sale prices, which I easily looked up after seeing them online, since I love real estate. Fun fact, I once worked for a mortgage broker and almost became a realtor.
Rae still advertises Lark Rise Horse House on a business page on Facebook but I assume she is much more busy these days with her newer business selling antiques. Which during my discussions with Matthew Good is quite successful and he seemed to admire her success. He speaks highly of Rae.
Please do NOT stalk this family.
That isn’t an afterthought. Rae has always published pictures of her family and kids on public social media and on her businesses, which she is entitled to do. These screenshot images are drawn from those public sites. The family was often also photographed for public newspapers while she was still married to Matt. Where I can I have provided links to these public sources.
Good Genes, Dirty Deeds
Matthew and Rae’s son Thomas was born 2011, later they had a daughter Elizabeth who was born in 2012. Rae was the baby machine Matthew had wanted out of Jenny Beth. I was told I could not have children. I had a car accident in 1992 and was told then, my chances were slim. Matthew knew this about me and when I was able to have a child, later in life, it was a gift.
Matthew claims that Rae had two nannies, that he paid for, helping her on the farm (2010-2015 time frame). As if this somehow diminishes Rae’s achievements at raising 3 kids, running a farm, writing a hilarious blog, or volunteering with the Mission Hospice Society and school PAC and running businesses all at the same time. Quite frankly she is a superstar perfectionist in all she does and it shows.
All I wonder is, did he try to have sex with the nannies too?
In late 2013 the drama of TheDirty.com happened. I remember when it happened.
I thought – finally he had been nailed for his cheating. After how he wrote me off as a slut and stalker in 2000, after what he did to Jenny Beth publicly shaming her in 2006, and how Keira (a public girlfriend 2007-2008) and her blogger gang had totally written me off as “crazy” for warning her not to trust Matt – well I felt like – yes, finally! Yes, that is right, while he was dating Keira, I warned her not to date him. I even had tea one day in January 2009 with Phaedra and she asked me all sort of questions about Matthew’s sexual proclivities. At that time, I thought she was asking for her friend Keira, not herself. I warned Phaedra that he was a lying snake at that tea time cafe. I wasn’t aware of the serious relationship developing with Rae at that time.
Snakes and Ladders
Of course, MG denied it all, and Raeleigh believed Matt. His wife believed that the girl from TheDirty.com was a deluded fan that had posted the fake story herself.
I was so disappointed when nothing came of it. I thought, holy shit – he convinced Rae it was fake or at very least convinced her to forgive him.
I get it, she had young kids. You try to make a family work.
Though from the public legal items listed on BC Court Registry, you can see the legal separation was actually filed in January 2015. So it does look like Rae probably was going to leave him way earlier than she did. What made her stick it out a little longer, we can only guess, very young children probably. The couple were photographed at the 2016 Juno Awards and in this video Matt says he is enjoying sleeping in a calm bed, away from 3 kids.
What I didn’t know until 2021, was that behind the scenes around this exact same time, another of Matthew’s mistresses Jeni T had also seen TheDirty.com story.
Jeni claimed to me during our conversations, that she reached out and confessed to Rae, that she had been having sexual adventures with Matt between 2006-2015. Jeni claims she even gave Raeleigh access to all her emails – all nearly 800 of them – between her and Matthew. Jeni shared quite a few of these email screenshots with me and a few other women. I don’t doubt her sexual relationship with Matthew, and I don’t see why she would lie about contacting Rae.
Raeleigh clearly decided to stick it out with Matthew despite those women. I suppose Rae didn’t know just how many other women were out there.
A Bridge To Sell You
In early 2017 – after the separation, Raeleigh became a Realtor, for awhile. She finally gathered the courage to face her fears, and finally left Matthew for good. This time he wasn’t as big a blogger with a giant readership, but about 20,000 fans were still into his Instagram, and in true Matthew Good fashion, he trashed on his ex-wife. He claimed she left him for a co-worker realtor.
Which yeah, maybe she did – Rae’s new man, Jeff is a realtor. She is still with Jeff today. So even if she did, Rae deserves to be happy. The kids do too. And power to them for making the best of it.
And from these public photos on her Instagram, it seems like they are happy.
What MG didn’t tell the fans was how much he fucked around on Raeleigh and lied to her.
There was a legal battle, for sure, during the divorce. Not so much about assets or last names, this time Mr. Good gave up half his pension, and the house and moved back in with his parents. He told me the story when we reconnected in 2018 – he told me how he lived, we discussed co-parenting and how some of the reason he moved back with his parents was due to his father’s failing health.
Seriously Robert and Eileen were saints.
Matt’s battle this time was about child custody. Frankly given his mental health, and his physical health, and that he smokes like 3 packs of cigarettes a day, and drinks like he is Bukowski – and Rae is this outdoorsy, active, and healthy, career driven individual – you can’t deny the kids are better off in her care. I mean, yeah dads deserve equal time with their children – but only if they are actually spending that time with their children. I suspect his career often made that a problem.
The kids look happy though. That is always what is important. When I sat in Matt’s living room in October 2021, his son Thom rang him on FaceTime. I sat quietly in the chair next to his and the two said their goodnights. Matthew said it was something they always did. So how bad a dad could he really be?
Raeleigh was aways a blogger, and I enjoyed the strange sense of humour in her writing. So when she started blogging about her life – after Matt – it was no surprise. her public personal IG thislifelessordinary continued on, and chronicled her new life with Jeff and her children. She continued the photography. Then started a new successful business Midcentury Modern, where she finds special pieces for private sale and for movie sets.
She is a powerhouse successful woman.
Good Equity
Raeleigh has been brought up repeatedly in this Hayley saga.
If you have read this site so far you will see she is constantly brought into this by other people.
At times, Raeleigh is noted as being a victim of Matthew’s mental abuse, and his cheating and lying.
At times, Raeleigh is noted as being controlled by Matthew.
Rae was accused of hacking The Admin Kim‘s Facebook account, something I do not believe she did.
Rae’s role seems to fluctuate between someone who needs protecting – to someone evil that is spying for Matthew.
The alleged leaked screenshots on Reddit, of a conversation alleged to be between Hayley and Raeleigh in January 2021 – actually show Rae as being in a very healthy place, having healed after the Good years. (If those are real screenshots.)
I think Rae has gone on to lead a very happy life, and that is the best revenge.
I understand it must be a complex co-parenting relationship at times, given Matthew’s bipolar mental highs and deep lows, given his music career and touring, his fans, and his massive ego. Jeff and Rae must be amazingly well grounded people to deal with it all. I wish them nothing but continued success.
And isn’t that what it is about – everyone having a happy life even after MeToo. Even after Cancel Culture.
Updated September 22, 2023 – Uploaded January 31, 2022