'An affair with a woman saved my marriage'

When writer Tess Stimson moved from Britain to America to live with her husband Erik she found herself lonely and bored, and her marriage began to lose its spark. So when she met fellow Brit Freya, she was ecstatic to develop a new friendship - however they eventually fell into an intimate affair which reignited Tess' relationship with her husband.

Tess eventually came clean about her infidelity, but instead of being enraged or jealous, her husband was able to accept that Tess' lesbian relationship was what she needed to put the life back into their own relationship. Tess joins us now to explain how her affair with a woman saved her marriage.

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