Last month, I
spent the Bank Holiday weekend doling out tissues as my old friend,
Giles, sobbed on my shoulder. His wife had just left him for someone
else after 24 years of marriage and three children. He was as bewildered
as he was devastated.
‘I
thought our sex life was good,’ he said. ‘We weren’t swinging from the
chandeliers or anything, but she always seemed to enjoy it.’
What
had made her betrayal so much worse, he confided, was that she had left
him not for another man, but for her best female friend, who’d been
their chief bridesmaid, no less.So
I thought of poor, perplexed Giles last week when author Elizabeth
Gilbert, announced she had left husband Jose Nunes — for her female best
friend, Rayya Elias a decade after writing about their romance in her
international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love.
