DH and I have had what I thought was a happy marriage with rough patches (when children were young, money issues in early days, different illnesses and bereavements of parents) but always very in love, like a team, and got through all this to a very happy place now kids have left home.
DH and were having some heart to hearts, playful on my part really, and he shocked me... confessed he had had a year long affair around ten years into our marriage with a younger woman at his office.
I was so heartbroken. He was or seemed very sorry and glad to confess.
I asked him to leave for a while. So I could think about it. I was devastated as I thought we had this love and true loyalty throughout all our life. I feel like my life has been a lie or I was deluded. A fool.
He's gone and I miss him. I'm so angry with him, but I also think it was so long ago. Perhaps I can forgive and then I get angry again. I miss him.