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If You Leave Me Now… I’m Going To Be Absolutely Completely Fine.

My husband left me on Saturday 27 September 2025. I’d booked lunch at a local wine bar for the two of us to have a catch up and spend some time together as he’d been away a lot. He asked me to come downstairs after he returned from the gym and announced that he wasn’t happy, hadn’t been for some time and that he was leaving. We’d been married for 24 …

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