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An unfaithful husband writes in about wanting to divorce his wife, with whom he shares a toddler.
Abigail,
I have been married for a little more than five years, with a wonderful son who is toddler age. I’ve had spells of depression my whole adult life, and during a depressive spell early into the marriage I had what you might call an “emotional affair” with a female friend who shared many of my interests. Nothing physical came of it; I gradually lost my feelings for that person, and later my wife and I had our son. The two years that followed were the happiest of my life.
Over the last year, I met a woman who shares many of my interests and shares the same social milieu. We had a short affair, and I ended up developing major feelings for her that persist, leading to a major episode of depression.
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Abigail Shrier is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up.