Jayeeta Majumdar Singhee

It takes more than guts to leave your husband, children, a comfortable life to start afresh with a much younger man and then live with his really difficult dreams after he is gone.

Thats what love does to you..I guess.

“My husband and I went for a vacation on Cape Cod, and I met Michael, who was an artist there,” Ms. Livant says. “He showed me one of his large canvases,” a dark blue abstract painting with a small rectangle of light. “What I saw in that particular painting was an image that invoked fear in me,” she adds. “I thought, there’s another world I have to explore. I knew I had to open my eyes to the rest of my life.”

Three months later, Ms. Livant left her family and went to live with Mr. Kahn, who was 10 years her junior, in Provincetown. To support them, she took a job cleaning houses. “People said, ‘Leda must have gone crazy,’ ” Ms. Livant says. “It wasn’t craziness, it was like a rebirth. Within three weeks of my moving to Cape Cod, I got pneumonia and almost died, I was in such mourning for my family and so vulnerable, and the sadness of having left my kids has never left me.”

She pauses, and her eyes tear up. “I always get a lump in my throat when I realize — but I have been forgiven.”

I am not sure I can leave Sanjay and Ishaan today for anything else in my life, but then I don't think I have really loved anything more than them. Read this article in Nytimes. Truly truly inspiring. Actually, maybe not the right word. I am not sure I am inspired, but I am definitely moved. I can completely understand her plight at leaving her children more than anything else, even though she is completely out of control because she is sooo sooo in love with not just the man, but also with his art.