After An Affair, We Lived As Strangers For Eighteen Years—Until One Doctor’s Visit

his emotional life.

Now, sitting in Dr. Evans’s office eighteen years later, that entire history felt like a heavy coat I couldn’t take off, weighing me down with the accumulated guilt of nearly two decades.

“Susan?” Dr. Evans prompted gently, bringing me back to the present moment. “The lack of intimacy for eighteen years… is that accurate?”

“Yes,” I continue reading …