August 8th, 2010
Baltimore
Brian Bercht cheated on his wife, Anne, 10 years ago. It was a full-blown affair, with clandestine lunch meetings and a growing emotional attachment to the other woman. It wasn’t that Brian didn’t love his wife of 18 years, he says. But he felt empty and vulnerable. And he was unprepared for the attraction he felt toward the co-worker who would become his lover. “I didn’t think it would ever happen to me,” he says.
For her part, Anne Bercht remembers the pain. She describes how she did not sleep or eat for months. “If we had been fighting, if we had had a bad sex life – if we had been struggling – maybe I would have been able to accept it,” she says. “But all of that increased my level of devastation and shock. I couldn’t think straight.” MORE
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