David and I had been married for almost ten years and we were both very much middle-order management in our chosen professions. Mine was insurance and David's, banking.  We met at university quite by chance; it was through mutual friends.  We both graduated with first-class degrees but it was really hard work for the three years that we were on our courses.  We had no children by choice, something which I came to regret b...

Brenda and Peter had been married for about seven years. It was, in many ways, a marriage of convenience. They had sold their tiny little flat in Winchester and bought an old end of terrace house in a little place well out in the countryside. Peter was always busy at his office and it was quite normal for Brenda to be on her own most evenings until late.  The house needed a lot doing to it but their budget was not really...

I was married off to the town's mayor when I was twenty-three. My well to do parents thought it was a good idea; who, for them, so they could climb the social ladder, or me? Peter was a decent person but he was nineteen years older and we were living on different planets. At first, it was quite exciting attending all the different civic functions and meeting only ever so nice people all hoping to find favour with my husba...