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What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent?

As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her…

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1 author picked Infidelity and Other Affairs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this non-fiction book at the right time. 

It’s because a Baby Boomer wrote it, sharing her experience after her husband confessed to having an affair with one of her best friends. 

No, neither me nor my husband have had an affair. But I’m a Gen Xer who’s reaching a major milestone on my next birthday, and the author’s reflections on infidelity and life in general, put my own life in perspective.

On a flight home I read the words, “It is not our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become.” I put down…

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