“From spring to summer, we debated whether to tell our spouses, the harm we would cause by leaving them, the happiness we might miss if we didn’t.”
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “My Spectacular Betrayal,” Samantha Silva describes her extramarital affair and her decision to start a new life despite the judgments of others.
“My therapist said that when he asked me what I thought, I often told him what my husband thought instead,” Ms. Silva writes. “People who knew us had started to weigh in — I was a bad wife and mother, had ruined a good man. He wanted me to trust my own voice, not theirs.”
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