Are you, are you ready?

Cue the music, Mark.

This is just a guide to modern life.

Modern life is hard to get just right.

It can frustrate you and annoy it.

And if it does, write into dear love joy.

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast.

This seems to be a bit of another special.

We're going to be doing on today's podcast the other side of the affair.

Now, regular listeners will know that a few

podcasts ago, we read out Mr. Y's story of how he had an affair and how his life deteriorated

into nothing. And we did ask on the podcast whether we could hear the other side of the affair and we've had a letter

in from one of our listeners explaining what it's like to be the other side it's very long and I will

read it out shortly I must point out by the way at any stage when you're listening to our

podcast podcast sorry I'm just a TV presenter I'm'm not trained on anything. So if you are taking advice

off us, you're taking advice of a TV presenter. Mark is here to keep me in check. Hi, Tim. Hi,

everybody. How are you, Mark? You excited about this today? I am. I mean, it's not, I think he should

get, you know, excited about, but I'm interested in it very much. Part of life. Yeah,

but it's not,

it's one of the,

not so nice parts of life,

isn't it?

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