Burning Bridges Author:Inette Miller It began as an affair, precipitated the breakup of her marriage, and ultimately led to a journey of self-discovery. At the age of thirty-nine, Inette Miller thought she was a contented wife and mother, settled in a sixteen-year marriage, and only vaguely dreading middle age.. At the age of forty, Inette Miller, having walked out on her family, w... more »as a patient in a psychiatric hospital where 95 percent of the women, most of them over thirty, were suffering from clinical heartbreak... On the verge of middle age, Inette Miller threw a monkey wrench into her life: She fell in love. The man was married, a respected citizen of the small North Carolina town where both couples traveled in the same social set. So inette Miller began to lead a double life: taking the kids to school and sneaking of to a country inn to spend the afternoon in bed with her lover: passing off her infatuation anxiety to her husband as prementrual jitters: writing laundry lists and keepin an intimate diary in which she recorded every nuance of a mid-life fantasy that was slowly, horrifyingly turning onto a calamitous obsession.« less