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Nobody plans an affair around British Summer Time. But ask anybody who has been seeing someone for longer than a year and they’ll tell you the last Sunday in October changes a great deal more than the clock on the oven. Janine, 51, from Harrogate, put it neatly when she messaged us last autumn. “From […]
Rosalind can tell you the exact moment she realised nobody had said her name in a very long time. It was a Wednesday in March, she was sitting in the car outside a Tesco Extra on the edge of Harrogate, and a man she had never met had just typed a question into a chat […]
Ask most people to picture an affair and they’ll give you a hotel room. Curtains drawn, phone face down, a couple of hours that nobody else knows about. The whole imagined thrill sits in that room, in those two hours, and everything either side of it is just logistics. But ask somebody who’s actually having […]
Ask a married dater what worries them and you’ll get the same answers in roughly the same order. The phone. The notifications. Whether the app is hidden well enough. It’s a sensible list, and most people manage it well. Then they get caught by an email. Not a racy one, usually. Not even a recent […]
Claire counted them, in the end. Not deliberately — she was scrolling back up the thread on a Thursday evening looking for a delivery code, and she kept scrolling, and there it all was. Twenty-two messages between her and her husband since breakfast. Bins out tonight. Boiler man coming between 12 and 4. Have you […]
Helen took a week off work in February and told everybody she had put her back out. She had not put her back out. She had spent four days barely leaving the house because a man she had been seeing for two and a half years had sent a message on a Sunday evening saying […]