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When You Have an Affair Because Your Marriage Has Become Empty

I started having an affair with a man from my bridge club because my husband and I haven't talked about anything real in fifteen years, and now I feel alive again but also terrible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The betrayal of seeking elsewhere what home no longer provides creates guilt that wars with the relief of feeling human again.

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