Tag: why people seek affairs

• Married but Lonely: When the Person Beside You Feels Like a Stranger

  The house is tidy. The kids are fed. The mortgage is paid on time. And Claire, 44, from Sheffield, goes to bed every night beside a man she has shared her life with for seventeen years — and feels profoundly, utterly alone. She’s not dramatic. She’s not unhappy in any way that would be easy…

• She Almost Cancelled Three Times Before Their First Coffee

  Millie had her coat on before she talked herself out of it. Again. It was a Tuesday in early March, one of those grey Birmingham mornings where even the coffee shops look like they’re still waking up. She’d arranged to meet a man called David at a café near the Mailbox — somewhere she’d never…