My Husband Broke My Heart: Why I Forgave Him

Sometimes forgiving is more important for ourselves than for them.

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
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8 min readAug 25, 2020

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Three years ago, my husband of 43 years announced that he was leaving me for another woman. Another woman. There had been no other woman since we met when I was 15. Our love was as instant as the fissure between us. It was fierce and non-negotiable, in its coming and its going.

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Invisible Illness

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.