Just found out yesterday from my cousin that her husband has left her. They have been together since school and have 2 children one around 20, the other at 6th form.
Of all my family they were the ones I thought the least likely to split.
I have'nt really been that close with her in the past, mainly due to an age gap - she is over 10 years older than me. But since getting a computer and having children and loosing my mum we talk more than ever, and she has always been a great support, and I look upon her mum, my aunt as the closest person to a mum I have left.
Anyway now this has happened. When she told me by e-amil she said I was the only person in our family she had told and who would be interested anyway . And we are a large family! I always thought she was close to another one of our cousins.
I have great affection for this cousin, and I am touched that she feels this way. I want to help her, but I live a good few hours away from her so canot visit, especialy as I have a baby and a pre-schooler. I have told her I am always on the end of the phone for her, and I think she will need this a lot more now as her son is off around the world for a year in June. I have also said she and her daughter are welcome to come stay with us any time, and we will go to see them later in the year.
I would love to do more but dont know how. her news has made me so sad, I cried when I read her e-mail.