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A 29-year old British bride was ditched by her husband three months after their wedding and after dating for seven years. Her 36-year old husband Alan Hoffman ran off with one of the wedding guests Gemma Hadley who is also a colleague at her husband�s work place. After a blind date in January 2004, Alan, a former soldier proposed to Michelle in December 2004. �He gave me several different shaped boxes and in the smallest box was a beautiful gold band with three diamonds. I was over the moon. When I saw the ring I almost cried. I was so happy � I couldn�t wait to marry him.� It took seven years including a year of planning and preparation to have a wedding at Bournemouth Town Hall in September 2012. They invited 70 of their closest friends and family. �The day was absolutely perfect,� she said. �We exchanged vows in front of everyone who was important to us. I�d never been happier but I couldn�t help but notice when Alan kept disappearing to talk to his colleagues, including Gemma, who kept glancing over at me. �I tried to push any worries out of my head. He was probably just checking they were having a good time. Besides, he�d just married me.� They danced to Something Right by Westlife. But something was wrong. She said Alan grew distant and their sex life plummeted. He talked about Gemma during conversations. �They were seeing a lot of each other. My instincts told me that something wasn�t right. I didn�t want to make a fuss, but I felt threatened by Gemma. �She was younger, slimmer and prettier than me. And I didn�t feel comfortable with the idea of her and Alan being alone together in my flat. I tentatively asked Alan if there was something between them but he laughed it off. She also had a boyfriend, so Alan said he thought the idea was ludicrous. �But although Alan always insisted there was nothing going on between them, I couldn�t help feeling jealous by their friendship. I just tried to bury my feelings about it.� In January 2013, Alan came home and dropped the bombshell �I don�t love you anymore,� �He said things just weren�t right and that they hadn�t been right for ages, and that I felt more like his sister than his wife. �His words hit hard � but I knew he was telling the truth, I could tell it in the way he spoke.