When Infatuation Veers Toward Disenchantment by Christine Meinecke, Ph.D. Remember Jeff Goldblum’s line from Jurassic Park? ”Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts, but then later there’s running, then screaming.” Infatuation Romantic relationships almost always start out “oooh, ahhh.” Of course, older and wiser people tell us that it’s only hormones. Infatuation! But […]
Archive | January, 2013
Forgiving Infidelity?
Unforgivable Hurt; What Do You Do Now? by Mark Banschick, M.D. Have you been wronged ? Is it unforgivable? Sometimes bad things are done to good people; well more than sometimes. • You are betrayed by your best friend who steals your wife. • You’ve been humiliated and beaten by a narcissistic alcoholic for fifteen years. • Your beloved […]
Infidelity Inequality (Part 2)
Why Wives Can’t Have Misters by Elizabeth Abbott Cheating? Stepping out on one’s spouse? Marriage vows notwithstanding, infidelity is a constant theme in the history of marriage, and has never been restricted to husbands. Wives, too, have always strayed outside the marital bed; some even transformed that marital bed into the setting for extramarital trysts. […]
Infidelity Inequality (Part 1)
If He Has a Mistress, Why Can’t She Have… A Mister? by Elizabeth Abbott In the 21st century, egalitarianism reigns — or does it? Why, if a husband can have a mistress, can his wife not have a mister? Not just a “piece on the side,” certainly not a gigolo, but a man with whom […]
Infidelity Websites: An Exploration
Celia Walden and Ashley Madison, the Infidelity Website by Celia Walden (edited) Celia Walden meets the creator of world’s biggest infidelity website - and investigates the tawdry world of online cheating “Life is short. Have an affair.” The slogan gracing the home page of the world’s biggest infidelity website, Ashley Madison, reads more like a […]