Memo to all mistresses (stop fooling yourself: he'll never leave his wife)

The Times Online (UK) ^ | 1/17/06 | Jonathan Gornall

[dakine]

your love life is never going to pick up if you smell of cat wee. And, trust me, you will smell of cat wee

They are always the last to know...

[martin_fierro]

No other man will want them because it will have reduced them to pitiful, bitter, angry, depressed, shrunken versions of the woman they once were, and could still have been. Besides, they won’t want other men: some part of them never quite lets go of the hope — the belief — that, one day, he will come back to her (and stay longer than one night and some of the next morning).

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Why do I get the feeling that Jonathan Gornall
would like to be the other woman?

[Pessimist]

Interesting article. Especially the ending. At first you think he's bein' pretty hard on the "other woman", but then you realize he's actually one himself - so to speak.

[Fenris6]

I've never undertood the mentality of a mistress - she wants to be the wife he's cheating on....

[VRWCmember]

Even if he does leave his wife for her, what does she have: a man who will cheat on the woman to whom he claims to give his highest love and devotion. Some prize!

[martin_fierro]

cranked up the Dido

The ... what?

[Millee]

eh-hem...(naughty boy!)

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Millee]

Who has the time/energy to be the other woman ping??

[martin_fierro]

Ohhhh.

(Marty = Pop Culturally Clueless. Never heard of her)

[Woman on Caroline Street]

Something I'm Glad I'll Never Have to Worry About - Ping!

[peacebaby]

He can have the Play Station. I've got FR to keep me occupied.

[najida]

Hrmpt,

I've got better things to do with my time than date a liar.

PS, I just had two women in my office...
one married 26 years
the other 33 years....both stated that when their husbands are gone, they'd never get married again. And not because of great grief....to quote "We're just tired of all the BS."

[Millee]

Amen sister! I unwittingly dated a married guy (I was 20 he was 31) and I felt sooooo scummy when I found out he was married.

[laney]

Can I be the other woman to Sean Connery?

[PaulaB]

I told my hubby not to waste his time or energy

on looking for extracurricular activity. He'll be damned to eternal life of listening to me say "what were you thinking"

and she would be bald when I was done with her so why waste a

good night of TV

[Millee]

"when their husbands are gone.." How callous. Are their husbands currently on life support or have they hired someone to rid them of their problems?

Poetic justice requires that they pass on before their hubbys, and hubby remarries a 22-year-old cheerleader. :o)

[Woman on Caroline Street]

I'm gonna get in trouble for this, but, oh, who cares? True story time:

Many moons ago, I met this guy. He was good looking, professional, yada yada yada. He was also very married, although, I wasn't aware at the time. Of course, I ended it as soon as I found out, and gave him the fire and brimstone treatment.

Now, fast forward about 5 years from that episode, I'm working at this snooty-tooty car dealership. Of course, I was the peon that the customers liked to harrass and torture. One day, I get the keys and paperwork for a car and the last name and address seemed oddly familiar.

So this woman comes in to pick up her loaded beemer and proceeds to act all "i'm better than you" to me (nothing specific, just snottitude). I just smiled sweetly, handed her the keys, and thought to myself "I may be driving a POS car and work a crappy job, but at least i know where MY husband is on a saturday night. And once, I knew where YOURS was, too".