Emma sold her story to Fabulous magazine.

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'I discovered my husband was a love rat.'

'How do I sell my story?' asked Emma Isaacs, when she contacted Talk to the Press. She wanted wanting to talk about the fact that a leopard truly doesn't change his spots. The story she sold was about the fact the married man she had an affair with, and married, cheated on her with another woman.

 

 

 

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'I stole her husband then got what I deserved!'

BYLINE: Natasha Courtenay-Smith and Hannah Barr

 

EMMA ISAACS WAS 16 WHEN SHE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH A MAN WHO LEFT HIS WIFE FOR HER. SHE MARRIED HIM...THEN FOUND OUT WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

 

Emma Isaacs' wedding day should have been the happiest of her life. She was marrying the man she'd loved since she was 16. But as she stood at the altar and listened to him saying his vows, she was suddenly overwhelmed by doubt. Could she ever really trust this man?

"I told myself to stop being silly and enjoy my big day, but I couldn't shake off the feeling. I may have looked the part with a fixed smile and a beautiful dress, but my stomach was churning," recalls Emma, now 25. "After all, I had good reason to be suspicious."

Emma had met Kevin through her mum three years earlier. He was 26, good looking and a charmer - and married to her mother's friend Terri. Kevin went to the same karate class as Emma, and used to drive her home. She developed a teenage crush on him, and confided her feelings to her mum.

"He was so much more exciting than boys my age," she says. "He had a car and his own money and seemed so mature."

So far, so harmless - but then one day Emma's mum casually mentioned the crush to Terri, who must have told Kevin. And that's when everything changed.

"A few days later as he dropped me off, Kevin leaned towards me and said: 'A little birdie tells me you have a crush on me?' Then he kissed me," says Emma.

It was all her impressionable schoolgirl fantasies come true. "I was thrilled," she admits. "I'd never felt pretty, yet here was this older man giving me attention. I was so naive. Of course, looking back, he took advantage of my age. Now I cringe at my stupidity." But back then, an intoxicating romance with the man of her dreams was simply irresistible and Emma barely gave his wife a second thought.

"Kevin lavished me with affection. I'd go to his house while Terri was at work, and we'd spend most of the day in bed," says Emma. "I was swept off my feet and didn't stop to consider what Terri would think."

Inevitably, the affair was discovered. "In May 1999, a year after it all started, I came home to find Terri sitting on the sofa with my mum. Both of them looked distraught," says Emma.

"Terri said: 'Tell me everything.' It turned out her brother-in-law had seen Kevin and me in town. She was sobbing and for the first time, I really understood how our affair affected her too. I felt ashamed as I told her the scantest detail."

But worse was to come. Terri then told Emma she and Kevin had been trying for a baby while he'd been having the affair.

"She was shaking. I felt terrible, and had to struggle not to cry myself. But I also felt relieved she'd found out. Now I hoped Kevin and I could be together," Emma says.

Three months later, the divorce was underway and Kevin and Emma had moved in together. "My parents were furious," says Emma. "But by then I'd got a job in PR and Kevin was working as a security guard, so we were able to buy a house."

For a while, the couple were happy, even though they argued over Kevin's jealousy. He liked to keep tabs on Emma, and would check her phone calls and emails.

Then a friend told Emma, who lives in Chatham in Kent, that she'd seen Kevin with another girl, and suspected he was cheating. "I didn't want to believe it, it was too much to bear - so I didn't," says Emma.

She put her doubts aside, and when Kevin proposed in 2005, it seemed she'd been right to believe in him.

They married in October that year. At first, the extra commitment reassured Emma and seemed to calm Kevin's jealousy, and they had a year of happiness. Or so Emma thought.

Like Terri before her, she was totally unprepared when her sister told her one day that she'd seen Kevin with another girl.

In February 2007, Emma logged on to Kevin's email account - and her worst fears were realised. "There were more than 30 messages to a girl called Julia, some of a sexual nature and one that read: 'Love you so much.' It was obvious from their emails that they'd been sleeping together in our bed while I was at work. I was devastated, yet the irony of the situation wasn't lost on me. I kept thinking I had no right to be so furious when he and I had done the same thing to Terri. Now I knew the hurt she must have felt."

Kevin denied the affair, but Emma felt sure he was lying and moved in with her sister.

That summer, Emma filed for divorce. Gradually she has got over Kevin and is now seeing someone new. Terri has remarried too, and Kevin, now 35, is still with Julia.

"I wish I hadn't been so naive, but I have learnt from my mistakes," says Emma. "I know I'll never get involved with a married man again. There's no doubt that I learnt the hard way."

Kevin declined to comment.