And now Daniel was talking about our children as if they had become a burden he suddenly wanted to get rid of.
Then he confessed to me that his relationship with Claire had already been going on for more than six months.
This revelation devastated me.
So it wasn’t a decision made on a whim. For months, my husband and sister had hidden their affair from me while I continued to live normally, convinced that the two people were still part of my family in the way I had always known it.
Daniel was the man with whom I had spent eighteen years.
Claire was my sister.
Two of the people I trusted most had just betrayed me at the same time.
The day their father left home
I will never forget the sound of the door when Daniel left.
I stayed there with our sons while they watched their father walk away.
This moment remains etched in my memory because it no longer concerned just my wedding. Seven children had also just seen their father leave the family home.
Shortly afterwards, I called Claire.
I needed to tell her exactly what I thought about what she had just done.
But her reaction left me even more stunned.
