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Why Is the Other Woman Always Blamed for the Affair?
Why is the other woman always blamed when a married man cheats? I was the other woman for five years, and my comment section proves the answer every week. I've been called a homewrecker more times than I can count. Nobody's coming for him.
This week I dug into societal expectations. Where they come from, who gets to enforce them, and why the rules around infidelity are louder than almost any other. National polling shows 89% of Americans still say affairs are wrong, the same number as 25 years ago, while 75% say divorce is okay. About one in five married men and one in eight married women…
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