My pals call me a modern-day Henry VIII because of the way I’ve treated women

DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN I think about the way I’ve treated women throughout my life, I can’t sleep at night.

I was like the modern-day Henry VIII and feel so guilty about the way I have behaved toward partners.

I was a cheat, a flirt and a “bad boy”.

And even though I have changed now, I feel I need to make amends and cleanse my conscience.

Instead of divorcing or be-heading my wives, I’d just run off and leave them for someone else. My friends still call me King Henry.

I’m 62 and now living with a wonderful woman who is 55.

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I haven’t cheated on her in the two years that we’ve been together. But I have been married four times, and had countless other relationships.

It may not sound believable but I did love all the women I was with. My problem was that I had a very high sex drive. I was a thrillseeker.

Sex with just one woman just never fulfilled me.

Once the initial passion and excitement had died down, I needed to find these things again, with someone else.

Women have always found me handsome and people tell me I have the gift of the gab.

So I have never found it difficult to attract the female species.
But acting the way I did has cost me a happy family life.

Leaving my ex-wives meant I also left my four kids behind.

They are now aged between 34 and 23.

I’ve tried to rebuild our relationships but I can’t make up for the years when I wasn’t there.

When I met my partner, I realised that I had to change or I would end up a very lonely old man.

How can I learn to forgive myself for my past behaviour?

DEIDRE SAYS: You’ve changed and you are remorseful.