Why I cheated on my husband with a female friend: After Eat Pray Love author left her marriage for another woman, what drives a happily-married wife to question her sexuality?

Women need to recognise their emotional needs have changed and find ways to share female friendships without making the error of thinking it's sexual love writes TESS STIMSON (right). Sometimes, this spills over into a physical relationship and women who have never considered themselves lesbian find they 'fall in love' with their female friend. But I think it's a mistake to make the relationship sexual as it changes the dynamic and, often, we lose the friendship when the romance dies. As happened in my case. It comes after Elizabeth Gilbert left her husband for a woman, her friend Rayya Elias (left).