Can I Save My Relationship?

Mark and I have been a couple for eight years. Until a few weeks ago I still thought everything was fine. Save the relationship?

At Christmas we were supposed to go to Miami and we were so looking forward to it. But he had changed, and his overtime kept piling up.

My woman's intuition quickly put two and two together, though. His new coworker Miriam. Men who fall in love are careless. I didn't want to look at his phone, but he practically invited me to. And there it was, the message from Miriam: "My darling, looking forward to tonight and longing for you!"

I was frozen, but managed not to show anything! Mark came into the room and I faked a coughing fit. That way I could escape to the bathroom. There I first sat down on the floor. I had to pull myself together. What was I supposed to do? I only wanted one thing: to save my relationship!

My decision on how I wanted to save my relationship!

My decision was quickly made. Go on the offensive and confront him with it. I wiped away my tears and first went into the kitchen. Took a bottle of champagne out of the fridge. A gift from my friend Constance. And I went into the living room with two glasses.

Mark looked at me, bewildered, and I had only one thing on my mind: don't mess this up, you want to save your relationship! "Mark, I want to make a toast with you"!

I poured and then I said to him: "I want to toast to Miriam. To the woman who crept into our relationship. Then I want to toast to you, who betrayed me like this. And a third time to your cowardice!" That really hit home! Then I went into the bathroom. Got dressed up, put on makeup and only said: "You don't need to wait up for me!"

Saving a relationship at the casino comes down to one thing: luck at the tables

I drove to the casino. The fancy casino 30 miles from home. I wanted to risk my luck tonight and above all just get out of the house. I had only been once before with my friend, and I won. Came home with $250 in winnings. Mark was sitting in the kitchen crying. That surprised me a lot, because I had never seen him cry.

But I couldn't talk to him and went to bed. I spent the next few days at a friend's place and had blocked him everywhere. After four days he showed up one evening at my friend Claire's. He desperately wanted to talk to me. He said to me: Please talk to me. I want to save our relationship! We talked a lot and flew to Miami. Not everything is okay yet, but we're on our way!