Recently my wife became polyamorous. My wife and I have been married for 15 years, raising two kids together for 12. We’ve had the usual challenges with boredom and intimacy over the years, but nothing I would call out of the ordinary. Then, about a year ago, my wife confided that she’d been having an…
Here are 5 brutal truths about being the ‘other woman’ in affairs with married men: 1. Sometimes, people lie to get what they want. Before being ‘the Other Woman’ know that no matter how sincere your married lover seems, you must double-check what you are being told. Don’t discount this distinct and ugly possibility. Find…
As the lines between casual hookups and long-term commitment become increasingly blurry, new data shows that more hearts are being broken as the result of situationships — romantic relationships that lack a clear definition or commitment — than committed relationships. Last week, eharmony released their annual Dating Diaries report which revealed that more than three-quarters…
As the podcast She Wants More suggests, affairs are in the air these days. Or so it seems to Jo Piazza, who feels like she’s been hearing more and more female friends opening up about their extramarital adventures in everyday conversation. “I mean, I’m hearing about it at school drop-offs and on the playground,” she…
Bringing new meaning to the phrase family affair, a woman has revealed that she lets her mum sleep with her husband – and will even let her sister sometimes get involved. Madi Brooks lives with her husband in the US, but if she’s ever not in the mood for loving, she’s more than happy for…
A ‘happily married’ dad in his 30s says having regular affairs has been the secret to his successful relationship – and he’s been doing so for the past seven years. Nate has had five affairs since tying the knot with his wife because his sex life at home is ‘too vanilla’ and he’s sick of…
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it turns out that women are having grey affairs and are more sexually liberated than ever before – and that, perhaps surprisingly, older women are leading the revolution. New York-based author and relationship expert Susan Shapiro Barash has been researching extramarital affairs for more than three decades, releasing a…
People stay in an unhappy marriage for a lot of reasons. You may be in one yourself. But when an unhappy marriage leads to cheating and infidelity, it’s time to lift the veil of denial and take a good hard look at what’s going on. It’s important to understand why people cheat before learning how…
Let’s talk about why wives cheat. We’ve all seen people cheating on social media and heard the gossip around the neighborhood — the stereotypical cheating husband, philandering with other women, while the emotionally neglected wife cries at home. Well, what happens when these roles are reversed? Is there a reason why some wives cheat on…
Infidelity in romantic relationships is surprisingly common as is hiding the affair. Within the last year alone, 2-4% of partners in highly-committed relationships had an affair, and across the lifetime, about a quarter of marriages include infidelity (as discussed in Fincham & May, 2017). Would you know if your partner was unfaithful? Unfaithful partners take…
Women like me who have been cheated on, get a shiver of pain down our spines even years after the affair, the betrayal. The lies, the little clues to his infidelity we only ever saw looking back, the suspicion, the gaslighting, the shame, but most of all the self-recrimination. Yes, the eternal questions — how…
A study that surveyed 2,000 people has revealed what is the most popular month in the year for having an affair. Affairs happen for a range of reasons — some justified, some not — but who knew that the time of year could be encouraging people to step outside of their traditional marriages? While there…
The titles and victories that Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved during his bodybuilding career are immaculate. He was the benchmark for the rest to achieve greatness. But, one shouldn’t keep him on top of relationship goals. Although he became a successful investor, a terrific action-hero movie star, and an able governor, relationships seem to not be his…
Was I wrong to use my former affair partner as a yardstick? At the time of this post, I’ve been on 57 first dates. Some of the guys I met for second and third dates. Some I dated for several months. With a few, we parted as friends, but over time the relationships dwindled. Needless…
Michelle’s affair diary reveals her deepest feelings. Michelle spends most of her days getting her toddler ready for daycare, cooking and cleaning for her child and husband, and working from home. On special days, she opens her front door to a man she met on Ashley Madison, and they have sex. Michelle has secretly revealed…
Having an affair with a married man is full of highs and lows, agony and ecstasy, and some days you may wonder if it’s all worth it. If you are reading this article because a married man ghosted you, it can feel devastating. And now here you are, in the deepest of lows, wondering what…
In spite of Prince William’s roving eye, Prince William and Duchess Catherine have been described by those closest to them as the “perfect couple” with a “solid relationship”. “There is no jealousy, no friction, they are happy for each other’s successes,” one friend recently told The Sunday Times. And yet while the Duke and Duchess…
Continuing the saga of the naughty Congresswoman…. Chambers, whose grandmother Anne Cox Chambers was the richest person in Georgia until she died last year, bought two gyms in the early 2010s. He really only wanted one in downtown Atlanta, but the previous owner insisted on selling the Alpharetta gym as part of a package. That…
Never trust Black Widow women. Chapter fifty-seven of my naughty memoir, Lessons Inside the Lifestyle, tells the story of just one Black Widow woman. The two posts prior to this detail other Black Widow stories, both considerably toned down from the real terror a Black Widow can represent, invoke, and unleash. Some of the questions…
