The Divorce Diaries: ‘I told him I didn’t love him and he threw a cup of tea against the wall’

I’m 49, and at this stage of life you appreciate things so differently. Contentment and peace over excitement any day. The house that I was in for the last few years of my marriage, we had done it up and extended it, but I walked on eggshells every single day. I never felt safe or at ease there.