The pain of infidelity is enough for women to live with. We shouldn’t require that they also live with our tired moral judgments. I had been married less than six months when I found out that my new husband was already cheating on me. I was standing in a sweltering laundromat on an Air Force […]
She fucked my husband and I’ll never condone that, but she wasn’t the one who pledged me fidelity. If Beyoncé wrote the soundtrack of my life, she wouldn’t describe my husband’s other woman as “Becky with the good hair.” The woman my husband cheated with was certainly no Rachel Roy (who really, really wants you […]
For one thing, swingers report more exciting and satisfying lives than the general population. Consensually non-monogamous (CNM) relationships, where committed partners mutually agree not to be sexually and/or romantically exclusive to one another, are slowly gaining visibility in the media. Yet, a few anecdotes aside, they are still shrouded in stereotype and mystery. Here are […]
It’s a cheap, temporary ego boost. It counteracts the years of verbal venom my dad spewed at me, telling 12-year-old me I was trash, a worthless whore. Yet, I wonder, what have I become? I am a serial cheater. I know many people would look at me and feel disgust or sadness if they knew my […]
