More alarming is the number of people she refers to in her tales that do the same. Men with multiple affairs going at the same time, women who date more than one married man at a time, and all with no show of shame.

And so much scorn for the wives of the cheating partners! What evil witches they are: trapping their husbands in lifeless, loveless, sexless marriages, getting fat and or pregnant, stupid if they don’t realise their husband is having an affair, spineless if they choose not to leave him for it.

TOW is a great writer and I’m oddly fascinated with reading her blog in the same way that people slow down for car wrecks, but at the same time it makes me queasy to read her content.

TOW and her commentors rarely consider the cheating wife with the loyal husband back home,  and she seems to think that all cheated woman have done something to cause their husbands to stray, which are two aspects that spoil her well worded arguments, but she did get me thinking.

Is the institution of marriage so unsacred these days that people actually view it with contempt? It’s mind boggling to me that something so precious to me might seem to others to be akin to our old Apartheid regime: Ill conceived and designed to trap innocent people into lives of misery.

I’m appealing to my readers (google analytics tells me that I do have some!) to let me know your thoughts on marriage / life-long monogamous relationships. Is this where you find true contentment with another person, or is this something so totally impossible that we should just bin the whole idea?