CHEATING WAS WRONG
Liston who, by now, was continually texting and calling, begging for forgiveness.
Sarah said: “I still loved and missed him, but I also hated him.” She kept Liston at arms length for four months but her daughter Amelia, from a previous relationship, kept asking to see him.
In the end Sarah caved in. She said: “When he first started coming round I couldn’t even look at him. I’d just disappear to another room while he played games with Amelia. I was so angry. I was really down and ended up on antidepressants.
“Liston kept asking if he could take me out to apologise properly but I was still furious. About five weeks later I gave in and went for a meal with him and we spoke about what happened. He said he was sorry and that he would do anything to have me back.
“I realised how much I missed him. He had been my best friend, my rock, but too much water had gone under the bridge.”
Liston finally won over Sarah when he bought her tickets to the Download festival in Doncaster, South Yorks.
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She said: “He was really apologetic and said he didn’t know why it had happened and that he wasn’t even attracted to Lisa.
“He said his biggest regret in life was losing me and, being miles away from home at the festival, changed something in me. I could see that I had to take him back.”
But Sarah, of Norris Green, Liverpool, still hadn’t confronted sister Lisa. “I just couldn’t face it. I told my mum to tell Lisa to steer clear of me. Our kids were at the same school but thankfully used different entrances so I could avoid her.”
Sarah had nothing to do with Lisa until September 2017 when their mum Shirley engineered a meeting on the school playground. Lisa has apologised for her “massive mistake” but Sarah doesn’t think it will ever be the same again between them.
Liston said: “I’m as mortified as anybody could be and I’m so happy that Sarah has forgiven me.
“It was a stupid mistake and I had to grovel to get her back.”
Lisa said: “It’s means so much that Sarah has forgiven me. My marriage had ended about a year before and I’d been through years of depression and was in a bad way.
“It was a sorry mistake. I can’t recall ever fancying Liston in the past. I think I was most likely for a bit of comfort. That’s what friends said to me afterwards.
“I felt awful when Sarah found out. There was absolutely nothing I could do to make it right.”
She added: “We were very close as sisters and I’m now working to build bridges.”
It was a stupid mistake and I had to grovel to get her back