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Pest Control It had been an innocent boyhood hobby, but when, in his forties, Simon Garfield rediscovered stamp-collecting, it spiralled into an obsession that went beyond the usual midlife search for meaning. It was costing him thousands and signalled the end of a marriage already collapsing under the strain of his love for another woman.

Little do wives know how much men spend on their hobbies. But my wife is about to find out. It is almost 1pm on 22 November 2006, a Wednesday. I’m standing just inside the door of my marriage-guidance counsellor’s house in north London. I have a stamp album under my arm and I am in all kinds of trouble - emotional, financial, philatelic - Pest Control a situation I couldn’t have imagined two years earlier.

My marriage is over, but the reasons are still unravelling. We have drifted apart over the years. I have fallen in love and I’m having an affair. I have developed a passion for someone I loved when I was young and for something I loved when I was a child. I am 47, and I can’t concentrate on anything for very long.

I have built up a stamp collection I can barely afford and it has brought me to the brink of ruin. The affair and my stamps, the two secrets that have brought me to this small room in the shadow of Alexandra Palace, are not unconnected, for both are quests for meaning, the classic mid-life dilemma.Pest Control  For my marriage-guidance counsellor, the affair is a commonplace: a lack of intimacy and honesty with my wife; a beautiful new woman who has rejuvenated my days and made me feel attractive; hotel rooms. But the stamps are something unusual.

Collecting fills a hole in a life and gives it a semblance of meaning. When men get together to talk about their passions, we don’t just talk about what we love - our cars, our sports,home cleaning service our romantic yearnings - but also how much these desires have cost us and what we have lost. We try to regain what we cannot. We talk about the one that got away - the prized possession - Pest Control as if that would have made everything right.

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