I heard an interesting one today…
A married woman I know tells her husband that she’s been seeing another man and has been sleeping over at his house while out of town caring for her ailing parents, while the husband stays home caring for their children. When she comes home she tells her husband she’s developed feelings for him and wants to start a romantic relationship with the guy, though it sounds like she already has, since she admitted to ‘kissing’ him while staying over at his house.
Here’s the kicker…so the wife recalls mentioning to her husband a year earlier when they were going through a rough patch that they discuss a possible separation, though no further discussion or action was ever taken. However, over the past couple days, after the local townsfolk start talking, she decides she needs to control the narrative and goes into damage control mode, telling everyone that she and her husband were ‘separated’, although that’s simply not the case. She removes her true marital status from her social media accounts and tells everyone it’s been like that for a while (another falsehhod), and even admitted to specifically seeking out the town gossip-monger and telling her this fib, because she “knew it would get spread”. The wife decides that because she suggested to her husband a year earlier that they should discuss a separation, in her eyes they were ‘separated’ from that day on…and therefore everything she’s doing now is ‘OK’.
Hmmm….I don’t know. I think someone needs to sit her down and tell her that it doesn’t work that way. There’s a right way and a wrong way to handle situations like this, and it sounds to me like someone knows what they’re doing is just plain wrong. It certainly appears that she’s trying to find a way of justifying her actions so she can look at herself in the mirror without feeling ashamed….and to keep folks from seeing what she’s become. She was apparently raised in a family where appearance was everything, so it’s important for her to prevent any appearance of impropriety on her part…although it appears her moral compass is now very damaged.
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