After being married for 23 years, I never would have imagined that my husband would ever leave me.
We had a perfect love story – meeting in the 80s, when I was young and slim, and then proposing in 2000 at Willamette Valley.

However, when I saw him out with his hot, young office secretary, I felt deep devastation.
I had put on a lot of weight since we had our second child and neglected my fitness and diet, so the comparison between her and my 24-year-old self was too much.

Despite what happened, I still believed that he had loved me for me. Little did I know that this event would be one of the best things that could ever have happened to me.