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At first, Kathy, 53 years old, spoke to me calmly, but as the minutes ticked away, her voice started to crack. Her husband had a long-standing problem with alcohol. The couple, married for more than 25 years, had one son, and tried to keep the marriage together by seeing a therapist. But there came a decisive moment when she could no longer keep the relationship going. She told me: "I discovered a hotel receipt and went and counseled with our priest at that point. [The hotel receipt] was for the Oriental Fantasy suite at [this hotel] at 11 o'clock on a Tuesday morning and I'm quite certain I wasn't there at the time." At that point, she knew that her marriage was over.