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Dear Stephen Shirley, I have been sad for a while now, and I'm seeking advice on how to move past this situation.

I have been in a relationship for six years with a married man that was loving and attentive and treated me like a priority at all times.

We live about an hour away from each other, and he would make a point to see me weekly

and take me on business trips with him and weekend outings whenever he could. He always told me

that he was in a marriage of convenience and was waiting till his children grew up to leave his wife.

I overlooked the fact that his youngest child is 20 and he was still married because I loved him and the relationship worked.

Well, tragedy struck recently and he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. I kept in touch with him

through his coworker while he was in the hospital. While he was recovering at home, I snuck over to his home to visit while his wife was

out. He let me in, and that's when I realized that he never planned to leave his wife. His wife

came home as I pulled away from the house. He called me and said he told his wife that I was an old

friend that was just checking on him. He said she believed it. Well, he died a few

days later, and I got a strange phone call. His wife had called me to let me know he died, and she told

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