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Tough Love: “My husband keeps ogling other women when we’re out. How do I make him stop?”

The Sunday Times
ILLUSTRATION BY CECILE DORMEAU

Q I’ve been married to my husband, a therapist, for 20 years. I’m a teacher, and we are in our late sixties. We have been happy, but I seem to be reaching the end of a close connection with him. Over the past few years he has started looking at young women when we’re out together. It’s not just a glance — he follows them with his eyes. I have told him I feel he doesn’t respect me when he does this, and that it makes him look old and sad. He apologised and even thanked me for pointing it out, but it’s getting worse. Recently, he wanted to detour up a road so he could keep ogling. I got angry and upset and have