'He can only run marathons because I'm home with the kids': meet the 'weekend widows' of adventurous husbands

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“Behind every great man an’ all that,” tweeted Beverley Turner last weekend after James Cracknell, her soon-to-be-ex-husband, became the oldest winner of the Boat Race. At 46, the double-Olympic gold medallist and six-time world champion had just rowed to victory as part of the Cambridge crew against Oxford. It was, everyone agreed, a remarkable feat. 

It’s a fair bet that fewer people last Sunday were considering Turner’s own remarkable feat, in remaining in her marriage for almost 17 years. The following day she made sure this changed: writing in a national newspaper, she vented what one imagines was many years of frustration by reminding an adulatory public of just what goes into the achievements...