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Can a relationship survive CHEATING?

‘MY HUSBAND HAD A SECRET CHILD’

Amparo Macalua, 49, lives in Belfast with her husband Peer, 50.

Peer and I had been together for five years and had a beautiful daughter together when I was offered a job as a nurse in the UK in 2005. We lived in the Philippines at the time and we decided Peer would join me soon but for the first six months, it would just be me and our daughter.

We kept in constant contact and I yearned for the day he arrived. Only, months into my trip, I woke up to an email from Peer’s sister. ‘Peer has been out all the time, acting like a single man. He’s been having an affair. I’m sorry.’

‘The pain was allconsuming’

I had never felt so sick and while I hoped there had been a misunderstanding, Peer soon confirmed it was true. I felt like my heart had been ripped out. Over the next week, as I tried

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