"In 2007 life was humming along quite nicely. Happily married for 28 years to the love of my life, three gorgeous children and now living in idyllic surroundings, it was like a dream. That dream was soon to turn into a nightmare.
When my husband took me for a walk along the beach one March afternoon I did not expect to come back facing a completely different life and wondering what on earth I was going to do next. Like all families, we had our ups and downs but we always seemed to sort ourselves out.
However, my husband’s revelation as we walked along the beach together was going to be a hard thing to work through. How do you hold it all together when your husband tells you that he has always wanted to live as a woman?"