Extramarital affairs and infidelity are common, with websites dedicated to helping people find them, bloggers spilling sordid details of deceptive trysts and more and more lives shattered by the effects.
But what happens when a child is born? How do you deal with the innocence of infidelity?
'She'd come over to our house a number of times a week to 'hang out', eat the meals I cooked and get me to look after her child while she worked.'
For Catriona*, a social worker and mother of three, her husband's three-year affair began 19 years into their relationship and 10 years into their marriage. Her story is one of courage and resilience, an empowering example of one woman's heartbreak ultimately helping hundreds of people.
Catriona's husband travelled often. He began an affair interstate and within a few months was deciding to end it when "she" told him she was pregnant. In the final 12 months of the affair the partner followed his family as they moved interstate
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lif...ild-is-born-20140402-35y2v.html#ixzz2xodCpGdV
But what happens when a child is born? How do you deal with the innocence of infidelity?
'She'd come over to our house a number of times a week to 'hang out', eat the meals I cooked and get me to look after her child while she worked.'
For Catriona*, a social worker and mother of three, her husband's three-year affair began 19 years into their relationship and 10 years into their marriage. Her story is one of courage and resilience, an empowering example of one woman's heartbreak ultimately helping hundreds of people.
Catriona's husband travelled often. He began an affair interstate and within a few months was deciding to end it when "she" told him she was pregnant. In the final 12 months of the affair the partner followed his family as they moved interstate
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lif...ild-is-born-20140402-35y2v.html#ixzz2xodCpGdV
