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Date:1 SEP 2011

Penny BoothWell surprise surprise ... (cynical old me) it seems that modern couples really do just lose that loving feeling. See The Times page 17 (not even page 1) Wednesday 31 August 2011.

Part of me is rather grateful about the report in today's papers that the extramarital affair seems somewhat out of fashion now. Such affairs are so messy in all senses of the word. If a marriage is to end let it be for the one reason anticipated in 1969: that the marriage has irretrievably broken down. All the rest are the reasons that demonstrate that it has. Better that than seeking after solace outside the marriage even if as reports suggest growing apart and falling out of love is the most common reason given by intending divorced couples as their reason for seeking the divorce. Apparently again surprise surprise many people shipping up at their solicitors are surprised when they cannot put down...

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