Emmerdale spoilers: Cain’s operation arrives – and he is certain it will end him and Moira

Cain (Jeff Hordley) and Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) have long been Emmerdale’s strongest couple.

If your marriage can survive your wife cheating on you with your son, it can survive anything, right?

Acceptance isn’t Cain’s forte and accepting his prostate cancer diagnosis has not come easily to him. He needs an operation but his fear of what life will look like after the op is leaving him worried about the future ofhis marriage.

The operation was postponed after a tired Jacob (Joe-Warren Plant) knocked him down with the car and left him too injured to go under the knife. Not only did this put Cain at further risk, it also gave him even longer to get inside his own head.

Moira’s return from prison should have seen him reassured and mentally stronger to cope with this curveball, but it’s only made things worse. Now he’s fixated on how much this surgery could change his marriage, convinced that without sex Moira will leave him.

Moira also confessed to Chas (Lucy Pargeter) that her once solid relationship is now rather rocky, and saying the words out loud just makes everything seem more real.

They’ve made it this far though, and Cain has managed to keep the op in place. He has a frank talk with Moira about what might change in their relationship. She reassures him that whatever is around the corner they’ll face it together.

But will Cain start to believe it?