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"My husband and I changed how we text and it completely transformed our relationship."

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'I watched on as my boyfriend had sex with my best friend.'

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"I hate that I'm a 'worrier' but beware the person who tells you they 'don't care'."

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'It wasn't until lockdown that I discovered my partner is a toxic narcissist.'

'My married lover left his wife for me. Then I got pregnant and he left me too.'

'My partner's in France. I'm in Australia. And it might be years before I see him again.'

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'I went on the best first date of my life. The next day, his wife called me.'

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"My husband and I changed how we text and it completely transformed our relationship."

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'I decided to have a friend-only bridal party. I don't know if my sister will ever speak to me again.'

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"Seeing people at home was a turn on." Exactly what went down when I attended a Zoom orgy.

'I was convinced my husband and I were heading for divorce. Then COVID-19 hit.'

'In one of our final conversations, my wife told me: "I wish we all lived like we had cancer".'

Dave seemed like the perfect husband. He was actually a real life Joe from 'You'.

“I didn’t mean to fall in love with my boss but I did.”

'I'll admit it: I'm divorced because I didn't put my marriage before my son.'

"An affair is a symptom. It’s never the whole picture." When you're the one who cheated.

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Living with your partner in isolation? Here's how to not hate each other by the end of it.

Secret purchases and hidden credit cards: My husband's 'financial cheating' broke our marriage.

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'I was convinced my boyfriend was cheating. So I used a GPS tracker to find out the truth.'

'When my boyfriend cheated on me, I blamed the other woman. Then she contacted me.'

'It took a separation to realise the problem with my parenting wasn't me - it was him.'

'It's not a failed marriage.' 6 women on the most important thing they learned from separation.

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