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MY HUSBAND TOLD ME HE WAS GAY

The night Andy* told me he loved me ‘but not in that way’, the truth exploded like a rocket in my brain. My husband was gay. Subconsciously, I must have been collecting evidence for years, but my brain couldn’t piece it together until that night. Suddenly, everything that didn’t add up – our lacklustre sex life, his heavy drinking, the work friend I’d never met – made absolute sense. It was the most awful moment of my life.

‘I FELT DECEIVED, BETRAYED, UGLY’

I met Andy in 1995, just after I finished university. I was at a bar with friends when a gorgeous guy walked in. He had amazing hair – a cloud of auburn curls

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