Posted on 01/23/2006 7:05:27 AM PST by Millee
MARRIAGE is the death of hope," Woody Allen once said. But not for everyone. In New York, where eligible men are few and far between, single women who endure long stretches of unwilled celibacy may resort to cheating with someone else's husband because it seems like the only hope - consequences be damned.
In December, I slept with a married man - late 50s, attractive, smart and successful. He's been with his wife forever, a lifestyle to which he is completely wedded, one that I had no intention of jeopardizing. Any guilt I might have felt was further assuaged by the fact that the man already had a roguish reputation. Since it had been two months that I'd gone without any skin-to-skin contact and I was too impatient to go through another round of dating rigmarole - the dinners, the chitchat, the sizing each other up - I reached out to him.
It was mid-afternoon when we met for a late lunch at a forgettable sushi place near 42nd Street. Since we weren't on a traditional "date," there was no need to conceal our vulnerabilities in order to make a good first impression. I was relaxed, and enjoyed being open with and appreciated by a man without even having to try.
Afterward, he put his arm around me and steered me to West 45th Street to Hotel QT, a sense of furtiveness lending a sexy dangerousness to our imminent entwinement. Entering the room, we anxiously pulled off our clothes, tearing back the bedcovers.
Last spring, a Time-CNN poll determined that while 90 percent of Americans say adultery is wrong, some type of infidelity occurs within half of all marriages. The reasons why seem obvious enough: boredom, loneliness, anger and, in cases when bedroom activities have simply died out,
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I've done a LOT of rotten things in my life, but I have never, and will never, cheat on my wife. Aside from murder or child molestation, I think that's about as low as it gets.
I suppose that's forgiveable as long as you would let your hubby say the same about Laura Ingram, Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin...
When you've been with as many alpaca's as I have, a horse is a nice change.
Two MONTHS? I'm going on...
...what year is it??
Shows what I know about the mindset, I guess. I don't even know why it's considered superior to be married ("she... is at least married, unlike the author", from your post). It doesn't sound to me like the author wants to be married - she prefers Mr. Right Now to Mr. Right. :)
He admires the blonde officer in "Stargate," whose name currently escapes me.
Me too. I was only briefly married, and although I lied, did drugs, and was horribly self-centered, I never once cheated or even seriously thought about it.
It escapes me too, but she is hot.
I could be "reading in," of course.
She's older than I am, although not by as many years as Mr. Cheney is older than my husband :-).
Great comeback! I love PJ. (In a way that his wife would not mind, of course).
No, it's true, you maybe old enough to remember Jimmy Carter admitting to it!
Samantha Carter? Is that her name? She's mid 40ish, looks good though.
My apologies ... might I offer a tissue, then?
HOLY CRAP IS THIS THE AUTHOR?
(Keyboard ruined by drool)
Whose gonna love these walking sperm receptacles when they're old, sick, and wrinkled? Our great-grandmothers got men to commit to marriage by showing a bit of ankle. The post-modern slut hops in bed with virtual strangers like a dog in heat and doesn't even get paid for it. No wonder men call them bitches.
That's the name. Just over 40, but in very good shape. Good hairstylist and makeup, too.
Ya gotta ask yourselves - how many wives in NYC are picking up their copy of the NY POST - and asking themselves could this be about *their* husband. (Which probably has the side effect of driving up sales or web site hits).
Wouldn't totally surprise me if 2 weeks from now we find out that the "married man" was really a journalistic device didn't really exist at all except in the writers' overwraught imagnination.
Or not.
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