When my ex-husband Sergio, then 36, told me our marriage was over and he wanted to leave our home, I was distraught. He promised there was no one else but couldn’t give me a concrete answer as to why he wanted to split up.
It was 2010 and we’d been together for 13 years after meeting at a London nightclub in our early 20s. We had two children, Frankie, then nine, and Alana, three, and we’d always had a loving marriage, travelling abroad when we could and enjoying time with friends and family.
So I was completely stunned when he announced he was leaving. As my tears streamed, I begged him to stay. ‘But why?’ I spluttered
