After I had an affair, my husband never touched me again…..

After I had an affair, my husband never touched me again. For eighteen years, we lived like strangers, until a post-retirement physical exam—when what the doctor said made me break down on the spot.

For eighteen years, Susan and Michael had lived under the same roof, their marriage nothing more than a hollow shell. The silence between them was as thick as the air in a tomb, suffocating and endless. The echo of words that once held meaning now lay buried, a casualty of an affair that had destroyed everything.