From the article:
“Then there were hard-to-believe rumors around town and at the Statehouse that he had left his family and moved to the South End or to Cape Cod, or both. There were reports that he had found a different love and a new life. There were reports that he had fallen, or was dragged, into the drug scene where crystal meth was prevalent.”
South End & Cape Cod (Provincetown) are dead giveaways that he came out as gay and left his fake life/wife.
Hence his new life, new love. Etc. They leave that out.