51 jennifer my mother is 51 years old and she's having an affair with a guy named Mike he is 40 my mother has been married for 23 years this Friday my parents were never in love my mother has not been happy in 23 years, nor was she very happy before then my father is not in love with my mother my mother is not in love with my father my mother stays with my father because he is old and she feels bad for him she married him because she was too afraid to live alone I'm 19 years old and my parents were never in love I don't want to be my mother but I would rather be alone than in a loveless/sexless marriage for 20+ years my mother is having an affair and I'm okay with it I just want her to be happy 000531 what's it to you? who go blather from