What The Other Woman Knows

What The Other Woman Knows

A mistress perceives that love is not calibrated in length of days but in height and depth. A love affair is constantly subject to two threats: a foreseeable end and a fragmentary present,which ought to destroy it but they don't. A love affair does not ask security against the world's fate; it shares that fate and knows it only too poignantly, which gives it great vitality for its season.

Marriage is often an attempt to bring life as nearly to a standstill as possible, guaranteeing what no one can: to go on feeling a certain way.

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Read blogger Jill Brooke's post "Is Infidelity A Reason For Divorce?"

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Read tips on how to survive an affair here.

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