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Dear Andrew
I’m not quite sure how to start this so I’ll just go for it. Me and my husband have been married for nearly 2 years, our relationship has some what been a roller-coaster from the very beginning, we met when he used to work for my mum i was 14 and he was 18. [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I was hit with the ILYBINILWY line about a month ago after being married to my wife for ten years.
We have been fairly distant for most of that time due to my overworking and addiction problems. I have been in recovery for the last 5 and 1/2 years, but in that time I have [...]

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Hello,
I havent read your book yet but have sent off for it. I was wondering if you could give me any insight into my marriage crisis. We have been married 26 years and i have always thought we were generally happy. I have been a stay at home mum and he has been the breadwinner. [...]

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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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Dear Andrew,
I decided to write to you after reading your book.
I have a relationship with a man already 2 years and 3 months.
I met Charles when he was still married official or pub, but had been separated for over two years, just living in the same house.,
I’m living in Australia now. 
Charles is [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I’ve read both ILYB and “how can I ever…”  My husband of 22 years, who seems to be going through a midlife crisis, questioning all his life goals, feeling stuck and needing to be free to make sense of his life. He said that he no longer feels the passion he [...]

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Dear Andrew,
My husband and I are still together, but he has expressed that he is numb and has no feelings. He also said that he loves me but doesn’t think he’s in love with me, and doesn’t know if he wants to remain married, and doesn’t want to work on our marriage.
This is all very [...]

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Dear Andrew
I don’t know where to start but I don’t know if I am too late to save my relationship, my 5 year marriage. We are both in our early 30’s and have been together 10 years with a 3 year old son.
I got the ILYB statement about 3 months ago now [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I have been reading I love you but. About two weeks ago I heard these dreaded words from my husband of almost 11 years. He tells me that things started going sour about 4 or 5 years ago. At that time we were going through a lot of issues as far a financial issues, [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I’m reading ILYB because my husband had an affair with a work colleague who’s also married, (her husband doesn’t know). He says he wants to stay with me but I feel at the moment that it’s only because it’s less drama to stay than leave. He’s admitted that he loves her, [...]

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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.