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HOW TO REBUILD BROKEN TRUST

SHE was paying the monthly bills when it happened.

“I was searching for something relating to our finances that had been sent to his cellphone when I discovered text messages from another woman,” Tershia Cloete* says.

The shock she felt in that moment is something she’ll never forget.

“I scrolled through the messages and realised it had been going on for the past two years,” Tershia (35) says. “I was in complete disbelief.”

She confronted her husband who, despite the proof, initially denied it – but eventually admitted he’d been having an affair.

“It felt like someone had punched me in the gut. I was heartbroken. I started questioning his love for me.”

Tershia and her husband had known each other for four years before tying the knot, and had been married for seven years at that

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