How we saved our RELATIONS HIPS
‘HE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH OUR CLOSE FRIEND’
Shirley*, 70, and her husband Steven*, 72, have been married for 35 years.
This year, Steven and I are looking forward to celebrating our 36th wedding anniversary – 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.
‘STEVEN BROKE DOWN’
To say that 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 was symptomatic
