'It stirred butterflies in my stomach that I hadn't felt for years. Graham never paid me compliments and I realised that perhaps I didn't look like a frumpy, middle-aged wife and mum after all.
'Graham was kind, and he helped in the house when he wasn't at work. I couldn't fault him. But he didn't make me feel special or attractive. I might as well have been invisible.'
'I was shocked, but mainly put out that after my efforts to have an affair, my husband had betrayed me. More galling was that Linda had appeared under his nose at work - he hadn't had to go out looking. The following day I couldn't stop crying, even though my abiding feeling was that Graham's affair made everything easier for me.'