I cheated on my husband and confided in a neighbour I’ve since fallen out with
DEAR DEIDRE: TWENTY years ago I cheated on my husband. I confided in a neighbour and I’m terrified she’ll tell.
I am 46 and he is 48. I had our first child at 21. He worked long hours and I was lonely. A man sold groceries from a van on our estate. He was 40 but said: “A lovely girl like you should be enjoying life.”
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When I started crying one day, he cuddled me – and it led to sex. We had sex twice more before I ended it.
I felt so guilty I confessed to our neighbour, a woman 25 years older than me. We were friendly then but she’s become strange and angry. She does nasty things like dump rubbish in our drive – and a couple of neighbours have hinted she’s told them about my slip-up. We are so happy now and he would be devastated if she told.
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DEIDRE SAYS: It would be the word of a woman with what sounds like a mental-health problem against more than two decades of happy marriage. If any more neighbours comment to you, say it’s sad that she is clearly unwell.
Some men would see it as a long-gone slip-up and others would be hurt. If your worries are eating into you, share them first with a counsellor.
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