Photos: Mom Who Snatched Her Daughter’s Boyfriend Will Tie The Knot With Him Next Year

When Marie Summers ties the knot next year, there will be one very important person missing from the congregation.
Because her daughter Danni can’t bring herself to watch as her mum weds Anthony Key – the man Marie stole from her.
The sordid affair between Danni’s cheating ex and her mum, 44, nearly tore the family apart.
Yet the young mum has forgiven Marie for the ultimate betrayal.
She says: “I won’t be going to the wedding because it would be awkward for us all.
“I can’t forget what happened, but I have forgiven my mum and I’m happy for her.
“The affair broke my heart and had a huge impact on me, but I’ve learnt the true meaning of the saying ‘blood is thicker than water’.
“You only get one mum. I never thought she would hurt me like that but I had a choice: get over it or lose her. I wasn’t ready to let her go.”
Danni, who is happy with new partner Damion Airth, split from Anthony after he confessed to having s.ex with her mum.
Devastated, she cut the pair off and left the town where she grew up. But the couple remained together and recently got engaged.
The man who was once her lover will soon be her stepfather, but Danni has let her mum back into her life.
She says: “People might think I’m mad for forgiving her, but she’s my mum and I love her.
“Nothing will change that. I thought it was just se.x or a cheap affair, but they are in love and Anthony isn’t going anywhere, so I have to deal with that.”
Unemployed Danni first started dating him in October 2011, when she was just 17.
Anthony, now 34, was the uncle of a family friend and he quickly became smitten with his younger girlfriend.
Danni says: “I knew Anthony was a bit of a charmer and a player, but he was really keen on me.
“He treated me like a grown-up, taking me out on dates to the cinema and buying me little gifts.
“Mum remarked that Anthony was quite good-looking, but I didn’t think anything of it because we were friends as well as mother and daughter.
“I had my own place, but we’d go round to Mum’s quite a lot.
“She thought I treated Anthony badly sometimes because, being young, I still wanted to go out with friends and couldn’t understand why he wanted to stay home or at Mum’s so much.”
Six months into the relationship, Anthony took a bad fall on his ankle and spent weeks bedridden – at Marie’s, in Long Eaton, Notts, as he didn’t want to burden the sister he was staying with.
Marie insists it was naivety that led to her letting him sleep in her bed, “on condition he slept on top of the covers”.
She adds: “I’ve taken in a few waifs and strays in my time and had another male friend staying, sleeping on the sofa.
“I told Anthony he could sleep in my bed as long as there was no funny business.
“I won’t lie, I was attracted to him. But he was my daughter’s boyfriend and I never thought anything would happen. It was all pretty innocent.”