Hi, A couple months back I lied to cover my butt with my husband. He had been told about a friend who had tried to commit suicide. I shared this information with a colleague who is a friend/relative of that family not knowing that it had been told to my husband in confidence. The next day, his friend who had shared the information with him, called him on it wondering how it had become public. So, I lied to save my butt. I lied to my husband, to his friend all because I knew he would be so mad at me for sharing. I did not share the information as a means of gossiping but because I knew my colleague cared about the family. It is now two months later and I got caught. My husband went out to dinner tonight with his friend who told him the truth. Now he is so mad at me he is telling me he wants to end our marriage. Our marriage has been a little rocky lately and this seems to have put the nail in the coffin. I don t want to lose my husband but I am afraid that I have screwed up so badly that he won t forgive me on this one. I tread a fine line with my husband as he has a bad temper and when I try to talk to him about my mistakes he only tends to get angrier and take it out by showing his temper (tonight it was launching an appliance across the house). I don t want our marriage to end but I am unsure how to make this better.