It was his mum that discovered my story in 'Now'. It was in the first edition and they'd put it at a trial price so quite a lot of people would have had the same idea at buying it at a lower price out of curiousity.
To this day he has no idea I was in 'Woman's Own' too. They used my real name and I had two photo shoots. The W.O. article was on how I was bouncing back and they asked me to wear something bright. The photographer did the shoot in the back garden.
Same for 'Now' but that photographer must have done over 100 takes (in the house, garden, surrounding area).
Now the dust has settled, I sometimes wonder whether it was a good idea to do it but it was great for my morale at the time. I still have both copies.
A strange thing happened on Sunday. My ex and I were sorting bags out on the changeover and we accidently touched hands. I immediately pulled mine away. It made me realise the truth about mourning a loss of what we both had rather than loosing the person himself. I sometimes wonder what might have been if we'd had stayed together although going off what happened on Sunday, I'm no longer attracted to the man himself.
They're coming up to their eighth wedding anniversary and I don't think things are as good as what they have been. He told me the week before last about them all going on a steam train journey that day and they'd been playing 'I spy'. Ex said 'something being with c' and my ds said 'cycle path'. She replied, 'that begins with p' to which everyone exclaimed 'what?' She'd obviously misheard and thought of 'Psychopath'. Ex then turned to ds and said, 'that's how my wife's mind works!'