Keep gossip about his spring flings to a minimum at lake this summer

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I drove up to my cottage three weeks ago steamed because a friend who lives at the lake phoned me and reluctantly told me my (second, and about to be last) husband had been going there “with company” this spring. My husband flatly denied it. At the cabin, I found female products left in the bathroom that weren’t mine and condoms in the bedside table. Someone was marking territory, like an alley cat! I’m not young enough to get pregnant anymore.

The cabin was mine before I got married to that jerk, but the problem is, for some reason I’m burning to know the details. He won’t take my calls and says I’m stalking him. I want to know how long it’s been going on and with whom or if there’s many. The next time I go up, I intend to play detective. What do you think about that?

— Needing the Whole Truth, Winnipeg

Dear Needing the Whole Truth: Asking everyone you know at the lake will make you look sad and pathetic, and hung up on your cheating husband. Go see the one woman who was courageous enough to tell you the basic truth, and ask for the whole story, with the dirty details. In a small area, word gets around. Leaving him and taking over the cottage (with changed locks) will make you look like a sensible person who doesn’t take crap. Give him all his stuff back, and that’s that. 

Let him know the neighbours and the RCMP will be on the watch and you’ve changed locks — he doesn’t belong there anymore. It’s time to get a good divorce lawyer.

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