I learned TWELVE of my middle-aged female friends have had affairs and their husbands are clueless. They told me their five shameless rules to get away with it… Get exclusive access to this subscriber article in the Morning Mail newsletter

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The bomb dropped while I was helping prepare food for my beloved godmother’s funeral.
Butter knife in hand, her daughter explained that the wonderful woman whose life we were about to celebrate had an extramarital affair with her own cousin’s husband, and that the affair continued for 40 of the 50 years she was married.
“My mom told me about this about two years ago,” her daughter said, pouring us both a glass of wine. ‘At that point he thought he was going to die and couldn’t bear to go to his grave without telling anyone.’
There are people who imply that they’ve known these things for years and ask them ‘Can You Tell Me How to Have a Relationship?’ I compiled a list of 17 girlfriends who asked in an email titled: to send them their best tips on how to get rid of it.
The answers were very enlightening…
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