Dear Mary: I’ve fallen in love with my married neighbour and can’t stop thinking about being close to her

"I am in love with my married 62-year-old neighbour and I can’t stop thinking about her." Illustration: Getty

Mary O'Conor

Question: I’m writing to you because I’m a 48-year-old single man, never married and with no children. I am in love with my married 62-year-old neighbour and I can’t stop thinking about her. I see her in passing as she spends a lot of her time outside, and we chat about the weather and other things.

Her husband spends most of his time in the house when he’s not working so I hardly know him at all. I can’t stop thinking about her and what it would be like to be close to her. We live in a rural area so there are not many people around.