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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I just found a love note in my husband’s work pants. I’m extremely upset and feeling sick about it. It has a map with a little drawing, and it’s signed with the words, “With love... this afternoon,” and a woman’s name with a heart dotting the “i.” How old can she be? He has an afternoon sport he claims to play on his weekday off and I strongly suspect he isn’t there. I know he’s been inattentive and distracted lately, and now I see he’s probably already been to see the woman who signed it. He’s the sentimental type so he kept her love note.

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I just found a love note in my husband’s work pants. I’m extremely upset and feeling sick about it. It has a map with a little drawing, and it’s signed with the words, “With love… this afternoon,” and a woman’s name with a heart dotting the “i.” How old can she be? He has an afternoon sport he claims to play on his weekday off and I strongly suspect he isn’t there. I know he’s been inattentive and distracted lately, and now I see he’s probably already been to see the woman who signed it. He’s the sentimental type so he kept her love note.

I don’t want to lose him. Should I use this map to drive to her house just outside of Winnipeg? Should I go talk to her alone, or to catch him with her? I could go there and park outside until he comes out. I could also blow the horn until they look outside. Or, I could just go there to talk to her and tell her he has a terrible disease and only a year left to live, and would she please leave him alone for me and the kids? She would be with someone else by the time he’s supposed to die, and doesn’t. I have a lot of ideas.

Why am I being so lenient about his affair? I love him madly and I cheated on him once and he forgave me because our love was so strong. What should I do?

— His Loving But Angry Wife, Winnipeg

 

Dear Loving But Angry: If this were a movie I would suggest the horn-blowing situation to embarrass everyone publicly — his sugar babe would get caught and all her neighbours would see the unhappy couple getting flushed out. But this is real life and neighbours would come running out and someone would call the RCMP about a “domestic” in progress. It would be a hot mess.

You have a chance of getting your husband back if you confront him privately, but if you make a public fuss and a fool of this man you still love, he may want to get away from you and stay with her.

 

Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6

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