To be really fucking annoyed with this article??

[Anniemannie]

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/25/letter-to-wife-of-my-former-lover

And yes, I understand it's supposed to be lighthearted but EUGH.

She knew he had a DW. No lies spun there. She is a total bitch. And got a taste of her own medicine.

No sympathy from me for her.

The decision to print it was probaly made by a MM editor thrilled with the idea that his own ex lover was still thinking about him and justifying his own crap behaviour as True Romance Thwarted

Ha ha! Oh yes poor OW, she waited so patiently for MM and is now heartbroken

nice touch about the gardening glove. just in case she is reading? make sure she knows its you.

See, I see her more as sad and vulnerable - deluded, yes; but not calculating.

She really isn't happy for them both. She's trying to convince herself I think

"Sensual". "European city" Boak.

There is no reason she would include the part about still getting in touch way after the affair ended and how she was surprised they had stayed together, if she didn't want to throw another spanner In the works. Actually she wouldn't have included half of the stuff she did. Unless of course her sole intention was to hurt the wife because she hasn't moved on.

The part about him spending a rather large amount of money in tiffany's on the OW was especially bitch. Again there is no reason you would include that unless you wanted to hurt the wife all over again.

*bitchy

Ok, I am reconsidering, putting the tidbit about the gardening glove in was very calculating.

She is deluded and trying to convince herself she's happy now.

It just sounds like something that you would read at the start of a rubbish romantic novel- which then was the story of the affair. It is sentimental drivel; full of hackneyed twaddle like 'loft-living', 'Tiffany's' allusions to photos that prove how much he wanted her (!) , the dog comments. Every bit of it is cliched; the style and the content.

I don't read rubbish romatic novels by the way - am using my imagination; not that it was much needed. I am surprised at The Guardian printing such poor quality drivel.

Why mention the gardening glove but only refer to "European city"?

It is made up.

Bet you're right, Lulu

It's a weird mixture of spiteful and sorry. All those needling references to little intimacies were the worst. The gardening glove, the perfume. Far worse than the big reveals iykwim.

Why revisit those to make a point that could be made without them? Cruel really.

And yes lulu , depressing new depths plumbed imo.

it doesnt show the man in a good light.
spineless.
it is a sad article but not annoying to me

Perhaps, it was the terrible quality of the writing in her love letters that made him end the relationship.

'I enjoyed last weekend in a European City when in a sleepy, post- sensual discussion you told me about the dog eating your gardening glove and we dreamt of London city living in a loft- apartment, while I sprayed perfume on the bed and you walked like a duck around the room in the shadows- quacking at all the perfume and dust in the air.'

Like Lulu said it's completely made up.

It's a cross between a Woman's Weekly short story and an ad for Trivago.

It's a cross between a Woman's Weekly short story and an ad for Trivago.

Hehe! That's it exactly.