'I moved out of our bedroom, my ex wouldn't': separated couples living together

By Amanda Hooton
Updated February 18 2018 - 9:51am, first published 8:57am
Jeremy Sheldon and Sue Levings (with their son Julian) split as a couple almost 20 years ago, but have lived together for almost a decade now.  Photo: Justin McManus
Jeremy Sheldon and Sue Levings (with their son Julian) split as a couple almost 20 years ago, but have lived together for almost a decade now. Photo: Justin McManus

Splitting up is hard enough, but continuing to live under the same roof – that’s insane, isn’t it? Yet plenty of couples do it, some more successfully than others.

Lesley Cape* is sitting in a suburban Sydney coffee shop, wearing a white top and dark pants. She has no make-up on her fine-boned face, and her hair is drawn back in a ponytail. She's very calm and selfcontained; her only sign of emotion is in her beautifully manicured hands, which tremble, like the quiver of a whippet, as she speaks – not from fear, one suspects, but rage.

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