21-07-2025
For nine years my married lover promised she'd leave her husband and child for me... what happened next destroyed my life, says MAX WOOLDRIDGE
It was a rainy April evening, cool and blustery, and I remember it vividly because that was the night I fell in love with a married woman.
Lauren and I had been seeing each other for a few months at that point. It was 2004 and we'd arranged to meet in our usual place, a bookshop near her flat. When she hadn't appeared an hour after our designated time, I began to worry she'd decided against it.
