Tag: affair guilt

• Essay: Affair Guilt: Why It Turns Up When It Does, Why Some People Feel None at All, and What Married People Really Do With It

  Claire from Harrogate can tell you the precise moment it landed, and it wasn’t any of the moments you’d guess. Not the first message. Not the hotel in Leeds. Not the drive back with the windows down and the radio up. It was a Wednesday evening, eleven days later, when her husband came into the…

• The Double Life: Managing Guilt While Seeking Happiness

  Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to become someone who keeps secrets from their spouse. It happens gradually—an unspoken boundary crossed here, a justified omission there. Until one day you realise you’ve built an entire parallel existence that your partner knows nothing about. And along with it, you’ve accumulated a heavy cargo of guilt.…