How would I summarise my relationship with my (ex)Wife without it sounding clichéd?

She was my lover, the woman who had born our children - I still vividly remember skipping across the hospital car park with the sun dawning and the bird chorus just starting, so happy with the world, in love with my wonderful wife, joyous at the birth of my son.  So too, can I remember the passion with which I told her I loved her dearly and how I wanted to be with her always.  Every night that I shared a bed with her, irrespective of whether she was asleep or awake or if we had quarrelled or made love, I would

I broke a trust with my wife....I lied to her.  I did not at anytime be unfaithful to her.  She was and is my only one love.  But about two years ago when this happened, our daughter left for university.  We started moving apart.  I did not give her the attention she needed.  She however reconnected with friends from the past (at least two) on line through facebook.

She developed relationships with them once again.  In all this time she thought I guess from my inattention to her,that I was having an affair with someone at my place of work....completetly missplaced...no way.  I love her too

Last night was that fateful night that I am sure we all dread and hope that we will never have to do.

My cheating wife and I could not agree what to tell the children (aged 13 and 11).  She wanted the easy way out and say that we had drifted apart etc..  I preferred the truth, the fact that she had been cheating on me for over 1.5yrs and got caught.  Culminating in me getting divorce papers for unreasonable behaviour.

So as I said we could not agree.  What I wanted to say the following - I would love to claim it as my own but it was from a website.

"When Mummy and Daddy got married they made