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I wish he would have been a gambler, a drug addict,

anything but sex.

What you're about to hear is an unscripted

one-time couples counseling session.

For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality,

all names and identifiable characteristics have been removed,

but their voices and their stories are real.

I thought I had the perfect marriage.

After 36 years, I found out that my husband

had been cheating on me from probably the week we were married.

I was totally blown away.

From a very early age, I was sexually abused as a kid.

And I also came from a very abusive family, physically abusive.

Sex became a way out.

I call it visual aid.

There was never an emotional attachment.

Mostly one night stands and pay for play.

It's one thing to meet a couple where there was a one-off affair

or two or three or five-year affair even.

But this couple is decades of prolific, compulsive dialyances.

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