How we saved OUR MARRIAGE
His affair was symptomatic of the problems in our marriage
SHIRLEY HALES*, 70, is a former administrator from Southampton. She and husband Steven*, 72, a retired company director, have been married for 35 years and have survived his affair with a former friend.
This year Steven and I are looking forward to celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary – for a long time it looked as if we weren’t going to make it. Steven had a six-year affair with a woman in our close friendship group, which ended in 2006. To say I was hurt and humiliated doesn’t cover it, and it took us around five years to work through all the blame and anger, and to rebuild trust. Only now, with the benefit of hindsight, can I see that the affair
