history: Many years ago, my ex-wife and I were having marriage problems.  I was away for training, and one of my friends who went with me and I became very close, but nothing ever happened. A while back_comma_ my ex-wife and I were having marriage problems.  To make things worse_comma_ my work sent another woman and I away for training for a few months.
current: Sometimes destiny has strange ways of manifesting itself.
next: I wouldn't call it destiny at all.  The whole time I was away, my wife thought I might had used this as an opportunity to have an affair since that other woman and I were close, but we didn't.