We only talked. Now I hear there are terrible rumors circulating about me. Fortunately, my husband is standing beside me as I try to get on with my life. I feel like I have committed a felony and don't know how to forgive myself. Doctors, nurses, social workers and other health-care professionals must not have a physical relationship with their patients.
Psychiatric patients are particularly vulnerable.
You and your husband would benefit from professional marriage counseling. It's important that you find out why you took a risk that sabotaged your professional future and compromised your marriage vows, so that you can understand and be able to forgive yourself. He is an only son and brother and has always expected it from us. Rudy never married and recently started living on his own, although he doesn't own much of anything. One of his sisters was generous enough to purchase a home for him to live in, but he refused to move to where the house is located.