I heard Lance took Kristin out on a vacation to San Diego, California (one of his wifes favorite spots) and told her that he was now in love with this 28 year old from San Francisco.
Star Magazine (August 13, 2003)
http://www.starmagazine.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=58951 LANCE ARMSTRONG: HOW HE'LL SAVE HIS MARRIAGE
The champion cyclist fights to keep his wife & kids
LANCE ARMSTRONG
CYCLING hero Lance Armstrong won his fifth Tour de France. But now he faces a bigger challenge -- winning back the love and trust of his wife of five years.
As Star revealed earlier this year, Lance, 31, left Kristin, 32, the mother of their three kids, in February, telling her that he was in love with a 28-year-old woman from San Francisco.
Although devastated, Kristin didn't give up on Lance. In April, they reconciled, but the healing is taking time.
"We're doing OK," Armstong says. "The kids are happy and healthy, and we're doing fine. Sometimes people do things that aren't right. We want to keep this together."
After his record-tying victory in France last month, Lance and his family retired to their castle-like home in Girona, Spain, for a much-needed rest.
The couple also began counseling, says an insider. Lance is determined to be there for his children. "Fatherhood is what it's all about," he says.
A ROUGH RIDE
Lance's life went off track on Valentine's Day 2003. According to a family insider, in February Lance took Kristin for what she thought was going to be a second honeymoon in Santa Barbara, Calif., where they were married in 1998. "But it wasn't the romantic weekend she expected. He invited her for a walk on the beach and then he told her he'd met someone else," the insider tells Star. "Kristin crumpled."
"She had devoted her life to Lance and their kids and she'd helped him through his battle with testicular cancer." In 1996, he had a cancerous testicle removed. After four rounds of grueling chemotherapy he was "cured" in October 2001.
Kristin's love for Lance also compelled her to endure in vitro fertilization to conceive Lance's children with sperm he had banked.
BACKPEDALING
"It was their families who finally pushed Lance and Kristin back together. Both of their parents wanted them to work things out, and they began counseling," says an insider. "And Kristin, with three small children, decided that she would be the bigger person and forgive Lance."