[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]

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

[Woman on Caroline Street]

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

[Muleteam1]

Gad! Only humans can make something so simple so complex. I've been with one woman for 34 years and I hope to be with her until God takes one of us home. We want no other now or ever. It's a long-term strategy of investment and there's nothing complex about it.

Muleteam1

[GovernmentShrinker]

Where in this long rambling piece of nonsense does the author provide even a hint of evidence for his main thesis, which is that mistresses want to be wives? Most wives are wives because they choose to be wives, and most mistresses are mistresses because they choose to be mistresses.

[carlr]

The chances are that if a reasonably attractive woman is single by her late thirties/early forties, then it is because at some point in the past she has hitched herself to a married man.

I would like to think that this is not a true statement.