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Newsflash: Married men who have affairs aren't necessarily sleeping with single women. OP, are you okay with your partner having sex with other men if she still loves you?
French culture is very accepting of infidelity,I think mistresses are generally more accepted there.mistress sounds so much more romantic and fixed,than home wrecker,adulteress,other woman etc.
This seems to be an inaccurate stereotype. The French women I know are not at all accepting of infidelity, nor are they interested in cheating on their husbands. They say that stereotype got started by French films that made fun of infidelity, and the rest of the world took it as the French norm, not as the joke it was meant to be.
This seems to be an inaccurate stereotype. The French women I know are not at all accepting of infidelity, nor are they interested in cheating on their husbands. They say that stereotype got started by French films that made fun of infidelity, and the rest of the world took it as the French norm, not as the joke it was meant to be.
Perhaps the majority still do find it unacceptable. The links I posted do indicate that the French are the most accepting relative to other countries...
This whole thing about "accepting mistresses" sounds like one step away from being in an open relationship...
Perhaps the majority still do find it unacceptable. The links I posted do indicate that the French are the most accepting relative to other countries...
This whole thing about "accepting mistresses" sounds like one step away from being in an open relationship...
I think in those cases it's "open" in that the wife pretends like it's not happening, and the husband keeps his dalliances from going public or affecting their relationship.
First of all, why do you think wives were more accepting of infidelity in the 1950s?
I've been married 35 years and yep, I'd have a problem with him having a mistress. If he wants another woman, he can damn well hand over all the assets we worked so hard for together and start over after we divorce. No way in hell will he be spending our money on another woman. Hell hath no fury my friend
Except in Maryland, he gets half. He may even get more if the judge has a hatred of women.
Because what choice did they have? Divorce made you a pariah and you couldn't get a job where you could support yourself, and if your husband wanted to retaliate for you not allowing him to be like all his buddies who were also doing the secretary, he'd just get a bunch of friends to testify that you had cheated on HIM so he could sip out of child support and alimony, and then you AND your kids would starve.
Yay, the good old days.
The choices were: be accepting of whatever a man wanted to do to humiliate you in marriage, or starve and lose every friend you'd ever had.
This is exactly the reason.
Even today, women that are completely dependent on their man put up with a lot more crap. My ex specifically sought out a woman that he could fully control and dominate, because it was always a fight with us because I would not let him run our show.
I know a woman with three kids and she has no job/ career. She has dealt with her husband in and out of jail because he supports her. I would have made him grow up or get out.
Because what choice did they have? Divorce made you a pariah and you couldn't get a job where you could support yourself, and if your husband wanted to retaliate for you not allowing him to be like all his buddies who were also doing the secretary, he'd just get a bunch of friends to testify that you had cheated on HIM so he could sip out of child support and alimony, and then you AND your kids would starve.
Yay, the good old days.
The choices were: be accepting of whatever a man wanted to do to humiliate you in marriage, or starve and lose every friend you'd ever had.
Need I remind you that although chasing the secretary around the office was a popular image, the reason it was a chronic chase without end was that the sec'y did not appreciate inappropriate attention. But back then, "sexual harassment" had not been coined as a term and as a legit grievance, so women either had to put up with unwanted attention they constantly dodged, or they'd quit, and look for a job with a better boss. The 50's were far from some kind of office sexual free-for-all, Helen Gurley Brown's infamous recommendations to women to use their sex to get jobs and move up, notwithstanding.
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