Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
In my experience, affairs just happen when two people are attracted to each other. It's unfortunate (and terribly short-sighted) when people such as the woman you describe act on their impulses in their own social circle, but I don't think she nor anyone is purposefully targeting your husband just because he's married to YOU.
+1. While some women may get some thrill out of it, I don’t believe that to be the case for all. For the women who date married men, the fact that they are married just doesn’t matter. It’s a status between him and his wife.
She’s not in that relationship and it has nothing to do with her.
A segment of women on this board get very worked up over cheating. Sometimes marriages don’t work out. People meet someone they decide they want more or could be happier with. They pursue that relationship and move on.
It’s not personal- for the cheating husband or the other woman.
Men do leave their wives. Sometimes it’s for the other woman. That’s a scary fact for happily married people. It’s much more comforting to think it can’t happen to them and it doesn’t happen to others. My DH was married when we met, divorced his ex-wife, and we are now married. He hadn’t loved her for many years and was ready to leave. And he didn’t affair down - I’m younger, make more money, and actually like sex. We are happy now. I didn’t target him because he was married. We met and he happened to be married. It wasn’t personal against his wife. We were just two people very attracted to each other that wanted to be with each other.