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Dear Andrew,
I have read How Can I Ever Trust You Again after my husband had what I guess you would call an ‘inappropriate friendship’ which stopped just short or adultery.  We have been married for 25 years and he met someone in April 2008 and told me in October 2008 that he was leaving me, [...]

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Dear Andrew,
My husband and I separated 6 months ago. When he left he told me ILYB… and also that he couldn’t love me the way i wanted him to love me, also that the spark had gone between us.
Since then we have seen each other about once a week. He has either [...]

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Dear Andrew,

My husband and I have been married for 5 1/2 years and have two children aged 3 and 4.
I found out last October that he had been having an affair for the previous 8 months with a work colleague half his age. After a few weeks it ended and he talked [...]

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Hi Andrew,
I have been with my husband from age 16 for 24 yrs: we have a teenage son. We love each other deeply, but unfortunately I became intimate online with a man we both know, but we never met in person.  It was on/off for a couple of weeks & regretfully I exposed myself on [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I would very much appreciate your thoughts on my situation.
Just under 6 months ago my husband announced he was leaving me and wanted a divorce, saying that he just wasn’t happy. He went that day, leaving me with our 8 year old and 13 month old baby. Very soon after, he [...]

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Andrew
I hope you will be able to offer me some advice - sorry if this is long!
My husband said “ILYB” about 6 months ago.  3 months after the “ILYB” I discovered, via texts, that he had been unfaithful with an ex-girlfriend.  He claimed it didn’t mean anything and that he would stop all contact with [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I had an affair with a man and fell in love with him. I knew when I got married that I was not in love with my spouse. I get confused when I hear that I can “fall back in love” with my spouse because I never was in love with him. [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I have been in a relationship with a man who I consider to be the love of my life for five years. Over the past five years we have had a few break ups but have always come back together because of the strength of our love for one another.  We have been together [...]

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Dear Andrew
My current partner and i was married before, but due to her obsession with an ex we got divorced. We subsequently got back together and i have to admit i did not treat her the way i should once we reconciled.
About two and a half years ago she e-mailed me to tell [...]

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Hi Andrew
My husband of 17yrs came out the other week with ILYB….. This came a shock to me. During the last 4 weeks since he said this I have since found out that he has slept with a colleague of his (who may have herpes) which is why he has [...]

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Andrew G. Marshall is a marital therapist with twenty five years’ experience.

He works for RELATE the UK’s leading couple-counselling charity, and writes on relationships for the Times, Mail on Sunday and Psychologies.

His books have been translated into fifteen different languages.