Posted on 06/30/2014 11:40:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
When Michele Macfarlane started to lose her eyesight, she got an au pair to help with the children. But she fell in love with the younger woman and realised she was gay
It's a well-worn cliche to fear the arrival of an attractive au pair. The threat, it is assumed, is always that the husband will stray. "There is so much written about this," Michele Macfarlane says, laughing. "I remember that early on I said to my mother, 'You know, I think our new au pair is gay.'
Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book "My mum joked, 'Well, if she is gay, that's a good thing. At least you won't have the problem of your husband running off with the au pair.'"
In the end, as the title of Macfarlane's account puts it bluntly, her story has a different ending: I Left My Husband for the Au Pair. When the au pair, Marizette arrives, Macfarlane emails a friend: "She's done a lot of competitive sport so she's nicely built – tall with broad shoulders, a flat tummy and strong arms." Massive alarm bells.
Although she was born in South Africa, Macfarlane, 46, is British, having spent half of her life here. She and her former husband, Peter, who is a chiropractor, met as drama students in Coventry. They started a family in their early 20s. By 24, Macfarlane was a full-time mother. In her early 30s, the whole family moved to Cape Town.
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More likely there were already some issues between her and her husband, the au pair observed it, and decided to seduce the wife away.
I’ve seen it happen with a friend of mine. Troubled marriage, and the “girl friend” of the wife - someone she knew from work - was “there for her”, all the time, whispering in her ear how much of a “bastard” the husband was, how she was being mistreated (she wasn’t), not appreciated, etc...
And then one day, he came home and found them (yeah - “found” them). And that was that.
Sh*t happens, unfortunately.
I have yet to see that movie...
Poor bastard.
They could have asked him to join in instead.
This story is likely coming to either Lifetime Television or the Oxygen Network.
Sounds like it already WAS on one of those stations.
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