“A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.” That's what I said to my sister every time she confides to me about his husband's infidelity.

That's what I also told Owen, that if he has a change of heart, just let me know and let me go. Because we'll never know what the future holds; it's better to be prepared than be burned when everything's too late. Afterall we started our relationship with honesty before romance and have been practising this for as long as I can remember.

We started our life as husband and wife at Aberdeen a week after our grand wedding in London. It was...