[library user]

For instance, I would consider a one-night stand as a slip to be less of a betrayal than an ongoing affair, which requires ongoing premeditation.

A one-night stand requires premeditation as well.

As for the "ongoing" part, it depends on what the meaning of ongoing is. :)

[Sherman Logan]

A guy having too much to drink while out of town on business and getting carried away with the wrong woman is quite a different thing from a month’s or year’s long “affair.” Doesn’t make it right, but it is very different.

BTW, something has always bothered me about the use of “affair.” I believe it is short for “love affair,” yet was universally applied to the Bill and Monica relationship.

Even by the depraved standards of the media, is there any rational reason to call their relationship a “love affair?” Isn’t that an insult to all real love affairs?