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I Am The Other Woman

Why do most assume it's automatically the other woman's fault???
Happyheart1 · 31-35, M
It’s the society stupid always having high expectations from women than men
If she knows he’s married, she holds some responsibility for her own involvement.

When a couple gets married, there are witnesses. The witnesses are there not just a spectators but in a supportive role. That’s why they ask if anybody knows why they shouldn’t be married, because it now becomes the witnesses role to support their marriage.

The whole reason we have to get a license to be married is because the state takes a vested interest in the stability of families and have a responsibility to ensure that.

As a society, we also used to find it morally unacceptable to involve oneself into somebody else’s marriage. If there are problems, those problems need to be worked out or they need to separate.

The other woman is enabling the man in avoiding his commitment. She, at the very least, is his accomplice. It takes two to tango.

It isn’t the other woman’s fault, other than she allowed a man to tell her half of a story and she believed it. She uses this story to justify what she knows is wrong, because otherwise most other women would never allow themselves to be with a married man. Somehow, knowing he’s unhappy, makes it feel somewhat ok.
fazer1k · 56-60, M
Of course it isn't. Having relations with a married man is not a nice thing for another woman to do to the man's wife, of course, but the "other woman" is not the one who made the wedding vows and promised to be faithful to the wife concerned. Her husband made the vows and is the one who promised not to cheat on her.
Nuzz15 · 36-40, F
I know a MM well who slept with another woman, after which he ended his marriage and now the other woman and him have been married for years. He said if it wasn't her it would have been someone else because he was miserable and had checked out from the marriage over the course of years. He did it out of anger, pain, feeling unloved, and now looking back he says he for sure did it wrong, he should have left his wife then moved on but he has accepted his past and learned from it. So the point of this is that his story taught me two things:
1. If a guy wants to cheat/leave it is not the woman being there that makes him do it, as he will just go to the next woman that comes along.
2. The saying once a cheater always a cheater is not true for every human being in the world.
Because we seem culturally incapable of holding men sexually accountable and responsible.
Mikemcneil · 61-69, M
@CopperCicada I don't agree. A male slut is still a slut
@Mikemcneil well, i agree with you.

but i generally see men let off the hook for cheating and the other woman bashed to pieces for being a whore.
Mikemcneil · 61-69, M
@CopperCicada as a man you can help change that.
Mikemcneil · 61-69, M
Because the other woman knows about the existing relationship. Unless the guy lies. In which case why would you carry on seeing him once you found out?
Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
It’s not your fault, it’s your classification. His man cave.
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Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
@IstillmissEP something like that, lol
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Primnproper · 56-60, F
It's both, as a woman I would never disrespect another woman by making a move or having an affair with her partner...that's my choice. Just as much he's in the wrong so would the mistress be single or not.
Bernie2 · 51-55, M
It isn't, he is the one that is cheating not you.
They are just angry with you as you are giving him what he is missing.
Mikemcneil · 61-69, M
@Bernie2 no guarantee he's missing anything. Maybe he just likes sleeping around?
Tonia3 · 56-60, F
That's true too Mike
Because people tend to think that men are innocent and women lure them away.

Just rub some body butter on yourself and he will stay!
VeronicaPrincess · 61-69
It goes along with the assumption that men are so easily led astray. 🤔
livingaloha · 41-45, F
I don't think it's a matter of who is to blame. That's just justifying the act. The fact is it's wrong, whoever is to blame. The thing is, only you control what you decide to do about it from now. You then take soul responsibility for that decision/action.
Pureblossom · 22-25, F
Hey be the other woman if that's what you want. I mean if there is no hell or it's not a crime why shouldn't you right ? I mean yea there are plenty of single people out there to choose from but hey 🤷‍♀️ Everyone has their preferences.
Tonia3 · 56-60, F
@Pureblossom I'm not the other woman
If both are happy then why look for someone to blame
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
Because it's their fault... if they werent there nothing would happen.
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
@CopperCicada Yet they are still betraying people and doing wrong while being aware that what they're doing is wrong. Hence why the answer to Tonia3's question is "because it is their fault".
@MartinTheFirst Yes. They are both at fault. No doubt.

But I would place the married person as much more at fault.
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
@CopperCicada That's okay with me.
it's not her fault unless she Knew
SINAI · T
Homewrecker.
Justenjoyit · 56-60, M
Why blame the Man, it take two to make a relationship.why always blame the one who looks outside.
Justenjoyit · 56-60, M
@Mikemcneil lol I wish I could give you some understanding 😊
Mikemcneil · 61-69, M
I'd prefer understanding to suffering.
@Justenjoyit to some sense i would agree with you. understanding people's suffering helps understand their choices. i also tempers judgement.

i guess for me this is somewhat personal. my wife had an affair during our marriage. i was not available because i was studying for comps in graduate school. the pretext was just as you say. she was suffering because i was not available for a period of some months. and i guess it's personal as i have had female friends at different times in my life whom i've loved dearly. but they were not available.

i guess i really don't see how participating in infidelity was really compassionate for my wife. and i never saw how doing the same with these dear friends that i loved would have been compassionate either.

 
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