An AFFAIR tore my life apart
THE WIFE’S STORY
‘I didn’t want to throw away 26 years of my life’
Harriet*, 50, was married to Mark* for more than 20 years, and they have two teenage children.
“I’d been married for 22 years when I discovered my husband had had an affair. He’d been a charming, attentive man when I first met him, aged 22. We were married two-and-a-half years later, and went on to have two beautiful children. At the beginning, we laughed together and had fun. But our relationship was very up and down over the years, punctuated by arguments.
In later years, we barely had anything to say to each other, let alone any kind of physical relationship. Even so, when I found out about his affair, in 2017, it was
