Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
That's quite a sad story, especially due to the time you were together. Two questions, though you don't have to answer if you don't want to:
1) If he hadn't wanted a divorce, would you have wanted one anyway due to the cheating?
2) How did he manage to take so many solo trips without you becoming suspicious? Or was he disguising them as business trips?
Your story is a little unusual because when men over 50 have affairs, they tend to do so with younger women. Here he did it with someone his own age.
In any case, you're better off without him. Pretty cold to just get up and leave your wife of 27 years just for some stupid high school crush from the early '80s.