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261basically said that he wanted to continue the affair but as both Sue and I would be looking out for it, they would have to be careful. Both of us thought that this was not someone who wanted to start a new life with Gabby. She blew hot and cold for a while which was difficult for me not knowing which way she would jump. At first I think that she thought I could just go and live in the mess while she stayed in our house. I vetoed that plan. Then she said that I could keep the boys with me, but she would take Alex. She would never have deserted them full time and so I guess she saw this as an interim measure before we got settled, but I do not think I ever knew what John was going to do with his 2 girls. Gabby said that they would find a small cottage somewhere and live blissfully in a certain amount of poverty. This sort of pillow talk was at total variance to the sort of man John was.My plan was that I would fight to keep the children and even thought about who I could get to help Alex with puberty. Whilst never telling her, I pencilled in one of our groups wife%u2019s to fulfil this roll. Anyway,when he came back there was no contact for 3 days which had Gabby in great distress. Sometimes telling me he was a swine and then mooning about him. Then one day I came home and she was all smug. He did love her but was just being careful. I was not convinced and said so. Writing this makes out that Gabby was a total idiot and acting like a teenager. It was all a bit more complex than that and I mean no disrespect to her. Sometimes I went and saw Sue and we talked about what was happening. When Gabby found out, she went apoplectic and tried to forbid me talking to Sue, who by now was the villain of the piece. Apparently, the thing stopping John leaving Sue was that their eldest daughter was now starting her GCSE year and so he would have to wait until that was over. In the meantime he was having a great time with 2 women fighting over him and he was getting all the perks. I became just an old friend of Gabby who knew what was going on and someone she could chat about it with. Eventually, I told Gabby that if she really