Even if you “get away with” infidelity , heartache happens, as one married father describes. When I got married at our local church in 2008, I was certain I’d remain faithful forever. My wife Sarah and I had three boys in quick succession.
Our youngest was born with a disability that brought untold stress and worry but we’d always pulled together. Our sex life wasn’t earth-shattering after kids but whose was? I took my responsibilities as a husband and father of three seriously. I’d always been incredibly judgmental about men who cheated .
The first time I saw Anna, a married yoga and SEN teacher, she was heavily pregnant and grappling with a toddler at the local swimming pool. We moved in the same circles. She lived nearby, our kids were the same age and I sometimes played golf with her IT consultant husband Adam and other dads.
Over the next few years, I started looking forward to the small exchanges I had with Anna at judo or rugby or the cricket club. Once you’re married with children , your social life shrinks to school quiz nights, Christmas parties, birthday dinners. Life was predictable but seeing Anna was exciting.
The kids would run off to play and out of all the other parents there, I was drawn to her. Conversation flowed and we’d always have a laugh, sharing the same offbeat sense of humour. When you fancy someone, you crave their attention and I was flattered when she gave it to me.
Then, when we joined the same tennis club (and, yes, it helped th.
