Tag: ending an affair

• Essay: How to End an Affair Without Destroying Everything: A Realistic Guide

  Most affairs don’t end the way people think they will. The fantasy, when you’re considering it, is that you’ll have one final clean conversation, both of you a little tearful but ultimately mature about it, and then you’ll go back to your real life feeling somehow lighter. Resolved. Healed. The reality is messier. Affairs end…

• Moving On: Life After an Affair Ends

  The affair ended on a rainy Thursday in October. David’s IE contact of two years had met someone single, someone she could build a public life with, and the covert relationship that had sustained him through a difficult marriage was suddenly over. “I hadn’t anticipated the grief,” he told us, six months later. “I couldn’t…