'Too much, too young'

1990-91 - during all the difficulties concerning her divorce Elaine and Paul's relationship continued to strengthen. They were happy in their little house in Hertfordshire. Both worked full-time and enjoyed their jobs. They had a lot of friends. They were happy to be together.

Of course some days were hard. Like Sundays. Elaine found those very hard as that was the day Paul spent with his children. She didn't resent him seeing them, she was very of them, after all she'd known the older ones since the days when they were all 14 floors up in that tower block. It just reinforced the absurdity of her situation. Here was Paul's wife, understandably bitter and thoroughly fed up that her husband had run off with another woman and left her with 4 children to look after, still able to be civilized enough to let her husband have access to his children. Unlike Elaine's husband. He would not let her see her children at any time.

Industrious as ever, however, she started her own sideline in various crafts and attended 'Craft Fairs' on Sundays to ply her goods. She did pretty well and it took her mind of things.

She still had a lot of headaches though. The doctors put these down to stress. The stress of not seeing her children, the stress of her husband's games over the divorce procedure. She assumed they were right.

They weren't.