I tried to see Rhonda as much as I could during my ten weeks in munich but it was difficult. Ultimately we only managed to spend two evenings together; the secret night time visit during her team conference plus an evening out to a Thai restaurant just off Maximillianstrasse after which she came back to my hotel. Each was of course an intimate affair but we both found it difficult to part ways at the end. Continue reading
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Munich – Part Two
By september 2003 Christine and I had been in counselling for a month or so and things were being brought to a head by an offer that my company made to me in recompense for the workers council in our Munich office refusing to sanction our relocation to Germany. They offered that I spend 2 months or so in Munich on what was essentially an extended trip on expenses. Continue reading
Promise Lost
I was taken aback. I’d made a girl pregnant and it wasn’t my wife. I was filled with an immediate sense of dread and the horrible thought of having to admit the fact to my wife. It wasn’t a good move. My reaction did not endear itself to Rhonda and was something I regretted immediately. The ultimate cause of the way I acted was the shame of what I had done, not shame borne of my own conscience, but that created by social consideration – what would people think of me? For the first time in my marriage I also considered, really considered, life beyond Christine. Continue reading
Jesse. 5th July 1999 to 14th November 2011.
14th November 2011
There are no words to describe him. Acquired as an appendage, a partner, a friend for Jemima, so one might describe him as insignificant – an extra on the main stage. But that would belittle his role and his impact on my life. Continue reading
