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WHY COULDN’T HE STOP WATCHING PORN?

Sitting around the restaurant table, I smiled down at the funny selfies I’d taken of me and my son Jack*, then six, on my partner’s phone. Grinning, pulling faces, we both looked ridiculous. ‘I’m deleting these,’ I chuckled. It was March 2017 and me and my boyfriend Tom * , then 35, had got together 18 months earlier, and he’d already become a huge part of mine and Jack’s lives. He was so kind and sweet. A bit of a geek, he enjoyed computer games and spent ages explaining his love of science to Jack.

‘SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE AND MADE ME PAUSE’

After divorcing Jack’s dad, I was cautious about introducing Jack to someone new, but after

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