I had great sex with my husband but I left him for another woman: Straight women tell TRACEY COX why they ditched men in midlife - but claim they're NOT lesbians
Women initiate most divorces in straight relationships (69 per cent) – and some of those are doing it to form a relationship with another woman, rather than a man.
The percentage of UK and US adults identifying as 'non-heterosexual' has more than doubled since 2012.
Generation Z (aged 13-28) have the highest rate of bisexual identification recorded for any previous generation: a whopping 20 per cent. For millennial women (aged 29-44) it's 9 per cent.
Women leaving men for other women is more common than you think. But why?
Are women happier with other women than they are with men? Is it easier for a man to accept when his wife leaves him for another woman rather than a man? Or harder?
It's not 'just a phase'
Here's what we know so far: women who switch from male to female partners after the age of 30 on tend to stay with women for the rest of their lives.
One reason why is women create more oxytocin (the bonding hormone) than men, so two women together are more powerfully bonded than a man and woman.
Women also bond over things that are less likely to change over time – personality, perceptiveness, kindness and emotional connection – more so than looks and sex.
Though make no mistake – lesbians have consistently topped the list for the most satisfied in bed for most studies and research I have seen over the last few decades. There is no orgasm gap with woman-on-woman sex.
Sex isn't usually the motivating force behind straight women who decide to leave men for another woman. But it's certainly part of it.
Here are the personal stories of two women who switched genders for partners – and are happier for it.
'MY HUSBAND WORRIED EVERYONE THOUGHT HE WASN'T SATISFYING ME SEXUALLY'
Nikki, 36, was straight and happily married when she met Anna through a friend.
'I met my husband when I was 19. We met at university and had 15 happy years together. I wasn't unhappy and I certainly had never felt any romantic or sexual interest in another woman. But I did feel unsatisfied on an intellectual and emotional level.
'My husband lives life in the moment and on the surface – which is probably why he was one of the happiest people I've ever met. I was always looking deeper and wanting to tackle life's big questions. I read a lot but longed for someone to debate with. My friends have children and are more interested in talking about parenting than politics or psychology.
'I met Anna through a mutual friend at a party. We started talking and instantly clicked. Intellectually, I was like, "Wow! This woman thinks exactly like me!" I was excited to make a new friend, and my husband was excited for me.
'I suspected she was gay and was right but that didn't mean anything: I have lots of lesbian friends. We met for coffee, then walks, then dinners out. My husband joked, "Should I be jealous? You spend so much time with her!" and I laughed along with him.
'Then things started to subtly shift. I couldn't stop thinking about her. I talked about her all the time. My lesbian friends teased me about having a crush. She was good-looking – men used to say, "what a waste!" when they found out she was gay.
'I found myself wanting to be physically close to her, the feeling of "I wish I looked that good" shifted to "I find her really attractive". I felt confused but also happier than I had ever been.
'I knew I'd fallen in love with her but was so intoxicated, I didn't question it. I didn't want to ruin the feeling by wondering if she felt the same and what that meant for my marriage. I guess I thought it would pass. It didn't.
'One day I leant over and kissed her. I couldn't help it. She kissed me back, then pulled back and said, "about time" and nothing has ever felt so right in my life.
'Then came the awful part – telling my husband I was leaving him. He was confused and shocked and refused to believe it at first. He kept saying, "but you're straight not gay". And I am. I still don't consider myself a lesbian. I fell in love with a person not a gender. Women get that, men don't understand.
'I think my husband was embarrassed. He felt that it reflected on him sexually: that he wasn't satisfying me or something. That wasn't true. We'd had great sex. Sex with Anna is also good but it's like comparing apples and oranges.
'I enjoyed both. What is infinitely better though is the intimacy. We talk for hours about so many things. I feel intellectually stimulated and emotionally understood like never before.
'Sex is totally different with a woman. Women have soft bodies, men's are hard. Sex is gentler and there's a lot more non-sexual touching and caressing. A woman's tongue is smaller than a man's, but it feels better because she knows what to do.
'Men lick too hard and never for long enough and are always checking to see if you've "come yet". Women know it takes time, so settle in and don't put the pressure on.
'We've only been together a year, but I want this to last for the rest of my life.'
'IF THINGS DON'T WORK OUT, I'LL BE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER WOMAN NOT ANOTHER MAN'
Reese, 40, left an unhappy marriage for another woman and has never looked back.
'My early relationships with men weren't great. I never enjoyed the sex and have never had an orgasm with a man. I married because I wanted children and picked the best out of a bad bunch to do it with. I come from a tiny village in England. No-one was gay and it didn't occur to me that I might be.
'We moved to Bristol after marriage and I had children. When the girls were in their early teens, I changed jobs and made friends with a colleague who was a feminist activist.
'She was funny and entertaining and like no-one I had ever met before. I loved hearing about her dating and sex stories with other women… until I didn't. I started to get jealous of the women and wish it was me.
'That was when I knew. It took another six months before I plucked up the courage to tell my husband and kids. My daughters were incredibly supportive. They came to live with me and are happy because I am happy.
'My husband was upset but we didn't have a great relationship and it was obvious to everyone that we didn't. His upset was more about appearance and pride. We co-parent better than we did marriage.
'There's a lot of noise about late-onset lesbianism and I read a lot about women who look back and say the signs were there all along. I'm not sure that's true for me. I had crushes on girls at school, but everyone did. I don't hate men, and I certainly don't love all women just because I'm now with one.
'But if things don't work out, I certainly will be looking for another woman not another man. It's so much easier being with someone the same sex as you. Less explaining and much better sex. The first time I had sex with her, I suddenly got what all the fuss was about.'
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'It's worse because it's so confusing. One minute she's my loving wife, next she's not. She said it was like a freight train that neither of them could stop. We have three boys; the other woman has four kids. They blew up their lives to be together. I'm still trying to make sense of it all. How powerful must a woman-on-woman attraction be for her to want to throw absolutely everything away for this?'
'It would be easier on one level. It wouldn't feel like cheating if she did it with the same gender. Like, how could I compete with that? But my second thought would be, what did I get wrong? Did I not satisfy her or fulfil her needs? What is she getting from a woman that I couldn't give her?'
'My wife left me for another woman when she was 28 and I was 27. She left me and our two kids after one week of meeting this woman: I loved her for seven years. She was my best friend and now talking to her feels like talking to a stranger. It was far, far worse than her leaving me for another man. Leaving for a woman means the whole thing has been a lie.'
'I'd find it easier because it's not something I could compete with. If someone's gay, they're gay. If it was another man, I'd be thinking he's better-looking, richer, more intelligent, better in bed than me. If it's another woman, there's nothing you can do. I can't turn myself into a woman, can I?'
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For instance, Lady Helen Stewart was one half of a glamorous 1960s F1 couple with the British racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart, while Suzy Hunt's marriage to James Hunt in the '70s was the society wedding of the year. This year, Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix, celebrates 75 years of the F1 championship - and the upcoming milestone weekend of racing will no doubt see an array of radiant WAGs once again put on a spectacular display. So, ahead of the three-day event, starting on July 5 with the practise round and finishing with the thrilling head-to-head race on July 7, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most glamorous wives and girlfriends to ever grace the circuit - and their varied fortunes. 1950s Louise King Married to Peter Collins American actress Louise King and her British driver husband Peter Collins made up a glamorous 1950s racing couple. They met in a Miami bar in 1957 and just two days later, the racer proposed. A week after first meeting they were married, reported The Guardian. Aged 24, Louise was on tour with the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch, while Peter, then 25, from Kidderminster, was beginning his second season as a member of Ferrari's grand prix team. A year later, the impressive driver won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, after finishing third in the Monaco Grand Prix and fifth in France. But in Germany just weeks later, as his supportive wife sat in the Ferrari pit with a stopwatch and a lap chart, Peter suffered a fatal crash. He had reportedly been set to retire at the end of that season ahead of starting a family. 'I had only a year and a half with Peter, but it was the most joyous time,' Louise later said in the 2017 documentary Ferrari: the Race to Immortality, according to the publication. She continued: 'He was a great driver: when he won the British Grand Prix in July 1958, they even said he might become the best. He was 26. He died three weeks later. 'We'd just bought our first house, near his parents in Kidderminster. We were just starting our life together, and there it was: over.' Louise, who died 18 August 2021 at the age of 88, would later marry Canadian film producer and screenwriter Gordon Burwash. He passed away in 1980. Meanwhile, Louise went on to act again before spending her final years in Florida, volunteering at a local history museum. She would always describe Peter as the love of her life. 1960s Helen Stewart Married to Sir Jackie Stewart Back in the early days, Sir Jackie Stewart, now 85, and his wife Lady Helen, born on 21 January 1941 in Helensburgh, Scotland, were the poster boy and girl of Formula 1 racing. He won 27 races out of 99 starts and was world champion three times before being knighted in 2001, while his glamorous and stylish counterpart was the 'original pit lane girl', attending 'every race'. Lady Helen - who wed her childhood sweetheart in August 1962 - was also an actress, known for Seven Days Too Long (1968), The Wicked Die Slow (1968) and Weekend of a Champion (1972). 'My wife was the original pit lane girl, my professional stopwatch - timing my laps to the millisecond,' Sir Jackie said to the Daily Mail previously. Lady Helen – the love of his life – was around before he made the big time; they fell in love when he was 18 and she 16. Speaking to the publication in 2014, the retired driver - who shares two grown-up children, Mark and Paul, with his beloved wife, added: 'We've had a fantastic relationship. 'It was a glamorous life, there were lots of girls around, but by the time I got into Formula 1 Helen was pregnant with Paul. 'My first victory was just before he was born, so the two are intertwined. We've been married 52 years and we still look after each other very well.' 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Immediately after the proposal, he reportedly expressed regret to his friends, saying he was not sure what he was doing - and was said to have spent the run up to their wedding drunk. However, the driver was aware of the great deal of value she added to him so resolved to try to make the relationship work, according to Shunt: The Story of James Hunt author Tom Rubython. But fed up of her husband's antics, Suzy later ran off with Richard Burton in 1976, after the Welsh actor split from Elizabeth Taylor. Burton reportedly paid Hunt $1m during the couple's divorce settlement, with the driver assuring the actor: 'You've done me a wonderful turn by taking on the most alarming expense account in the country.' Hunt died of a heart attack in 1993 at his home in Wimbledon. He was 45. He reportedly left a large sum of money for his friends to get drunk at his wake. Barbro Peterson Married to Ronnie Peterson Barbro met Lotus Formula driver Ronnie Peterson in true swinging 60s style while dancing in a club in Örebro, Sweden, around the spring of 1968. She worked as a secretary before moving to New York City in 1969 to become an au pair, however, she returned for the 1970 racing season. Barbro was more of a hands-on WAG and took up the role of Ronnie's timekeeper and was often found perching on the pit counter, watching her husband's performance. The couple married in 1975 and decided to make England their home, although they had a flat in Monaco and a holiday home in their homeland, Sweden. Barbro gave first to their daughter Nina in the November of that year and the pair lived together as a happy family for a couple of years. However, only three years after they tied the knot, Ronnie tragically died aged 34 on 11 September 1978 after his Lotus crashed during the Italian Grand Prix. Riccardo Patrese had collided with James Hunt and this caused a chain-reaction which launched Ronnie's Lotus into the barriers at 100mph. The impact of the smash tore off the front end of the vehicle and he sustained severe leg injuries so much so that amputation was considered. He was rushed to Niguarda hospital in Milan, but his condition worsened through the night, causing him to pass away from a bone marrow embolism that entered his bloodstream. Barbaro found it hard to cope after the love of her life was taken away from her prematurely and died of suicide less than a week before Christmas Day in 1987 aged 40. As Barbro was so involved in her late husband's racing life, she was thought to be terribly lonely after his passing. She dated British racing driver John Watson for around five years but Lotus team manager Peter Warr believed that deep down she knew her soulmate was Ronnie. Warr told Motorsport Magazine: 'The lifestyle she led and the happiness she found with Ronnie was totally irreplaceable. She wouldn't have found it with anyone else. 'They were made for each other, and they were just delirious that things worked out so well. They loved life and they loved each other.' Their deaths left 12-year-old Nina an orphan and she was raised by her grandparents. 1980s Susie Moss Married to Sir Stirling Moss Lady Susie Moss first met British F1 legend Sir Stirling Moss when she was five years old and he was 28 in Hong Kong, as the pair's families were close. The pair met again years later when Susie moved to London aged 17. The pair struck up a friendship that slowly blossomed into a romance, despite Stirling briefly going out with Susie's older sister, Tina. Susie previously told the Mail: 'The age gap didn't matter. I never thought about it because, to me, he was never old. He was always such fun.' Susie was four months pregnant with their son Elliot when they married in 1980 at Hammersmith & Fulham Register Office. Susie was never worried that her husband might stray and said: 'Once we'd got married, he wasn't a player. He believed very strongly that one belongs to one.' The pair spent 40 years travelling the world together, going to iconic festivals such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed and luxurious socialite events with brands such as Louis Vuitton and Chopard. Despite the many near-misses of his racing career, Stirling always seemed indestructible. In 2010, aged 80, he even survived a fall down the lift shaft at his home. He had summoned it and stepped into a void, realising too late that the door had opened onto emptiness. He broke both ankles, four bones in his foot and chipped four vertebrae in the plunge. 'I thought I'd lost him,' says Susie. 'But he came bouncing back. He made no fuss at all.' 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The couple lived in Mayfair, just a stone's throw from swanky private members' club 5 Hertford Street, at the house which Sir Stirling designed and equipped with a treasury of gadgets. Susie remained there after his death - sleeping close to the urn containing his ashes. 'She has gone far too soon,' her sister Lady Green said in 2023. 'We will miss her terribly.' 1990s Adriane Galisteu Partner of Ayrton Senna Adriane first met legendary Brazilian F1 driver Ayrton Senna when she worked as a hospitality hostess for the oil company Shell at the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix. Despite the pair seeing each other several times during that race weekend in the hospitality suite, they didn't interact until Ayrton celebrated after the Brazilian Grand Prix at Limelight Club. During their relationship, Adriane lived a glitzy lifestyle and would often jet off to destinations such as Monaco and Hungary to cheer on her boyfriend. According to Tom Rubython's 2004 biography, The Life of Senna, Ayrton planned to stay in Portugal with Adriane for five months during the European race season in 1994 and not return to Brazil during that time, as reported by Business Insider. This caused a rift between the pair and Ayrton's family, who allegedly felt as though the glamorous blonde model was not good enough for their son. Galisteu saw Senna for the last time on April 3, 1994, weeks before his death. She was taking an English language course in Brazil in preparation for spending time in Europe and living with Senna. But their love story was cut short after Ayrton died during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Italy while racing for Williams aged just 34. He crashed into a concrete wall at 190mph and died almost instantly from the impact. Heartbroken Adriane - who saw Ayrton for the last time on April 3, 1994, weeks before his death - witnessed the crash as she was watching the race live on television from his apartment in Portugal. She told the Mail: 'I saw the accident and thought nothing of it,' she said. 'In fact, I thought, 'Good, he'll be back early, thank goodness'.' 'But then I saw it was more serious than I first imagined. I stood in front of the TV and watched the replay over and over again. I could see the car was damaged but I never thought he had died.' Adriane was told to get on a plane to Italy immediately but when it was about to take off, the pilot got a call from the tower. She said: 'I imagined it was Ayrton saying 'You don't need to come, everything is OK'. 'It was a friend [who said] ''Adriane, you don't need to come'. 'Wow, that's good', I said, thinking he must be improving. 'No, he's dead'. My world stopped at that moment. 'In my head it was impossible: he could only die of old age. It was incredible that he died doing what he knew best in life. 'It was very difficult for Brazil, for the whole world, but even more for me. It took me many years to recover my life, especially amorously.' Images show emotional Adriane joining mourners at his funeral in May 1994 as she appears to break down in tears over his coffin. Per Rubython's biography, Aridane said that Ayrton told her that he wanted to marry her someday, switch from Williams to Ferrari and had dreamed of becoming a father one day. After his untimely death, she ended up marrying Brazilian businessman Roberto Justus in 1998, but the pair divorced a year later in 1999. She then tied the knot with her current husband Alexandre Iódice in 2010 and the pair share one son together named Vittorio. The former model now works as an actress and TV host, boasting more than six million followers on Instagram, where she regularly shares an insight into her glamorous life. 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