Adult Blogs: MR CHEWS ASIAN BEAVER raises the point, why did I stay with Mark? To begin with it was the old reason, "For the sake of the children." There was also the hope that things would improve between Mark and I. Then the children left home and I wanted to stay in the house because it was my home.
Mark and I lived in the same house, but led separate lives. I had a wide circle of friends, Mark had none. As I have said, he was an isolate, so almost as a habit, I stayed.
There was one thing that helped me escape the tension of the home; I took up house sitting for people who were going away for a week or two. Mark seemed to be quite happy for me to go off on my sitting jobs, and it enabled me to entertain my lovers in complete freedom in whatever house I was sitting.