Hi Matty,

Thank you for your reply.

We have been together for 5 years and married for just over 1 year. This has never happened before.
A bit of background about him – his Mother passed away 2 years ago from cancer, she was a lovely woman but she did sometimes treat my husband as a replacement for his Dad who left when my husband was 19. He left because of the way he was being treated at the time however, he was the last person to visit her before she died. I have a feeling that he didn’t really want to leave his Mum but saw no other option.

I don’t know if this has affected my husband but for the first few years of our relationship, it was centred on his mum and her treatment. It’s only now that everything seems to be going right for us (job, home etc.) that this has come up.