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Originally Posted by DC_DEEP  Lee, it's kind of funny - if I understood your post, and the replies, it seems that several have gotten the situation wrong, and the ones who did are men.
If I'm getting it right, your friends are not cheating on their partners, they are single, and having affairs with men who are in relationships. |
Two female friends of mine in relationships are both having extra marital affairs. Yet when the 'boyfriend' does something wrong they come running to me asking "How could he do that to me?"
Yes, that's how I initially read the bold. That
Lee's friends are in relationships and are cheating on
their partners with married men. If
you are right then it's not they (
Lee's friends) who are having the extra marital affairs (they're not married so they really can't be), it's the husbands of the other women who are.
I think it was a logical interpretation on first reading though with hindsight you're quite probably right - the use of
relationship rather than married to describe them (
Lee's friends) is a clue. I should pay better attention! I'm not sure one can read any gender bias into this misreading though
especially based on only a couple of responses.
Either way aside from the final sentence (failed on a technicality) of the first para, I stand by my comment.
Perhaps Lee could clarify, for our edification?
