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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annalisa Barbieri

My ex and I want to be together. Should we both break up with our partners?

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I was married to a wonderful man for 30 years. We had a great relationship, and shared many interests and a sense of humour. I had been sterilised before we met, so he understood we would never have children, which was not a problem.

In the last six years of our marriage we were no longer having sex as I had lost interest, but he assured me it really wasn’t a problem at all. However, an opportunity arose with a woman he met through work, and they ended up having sex. They met when he was helping with some personal issues while working on her house. She became pregnant. He felt he had to do the honourable thing, and left me to live with her and the baby.

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