“In every society, on every continent, and in every era, regardless of the penalties and the deterrents, men and women have slipped the confines of matrimony. Almost everywhere people marry, monogamy is the official norm and infidelity the clandestine one.”[1] Building upon her New York Times Bestseller, Mating in Captivity, renowned couples therapist, Esther…
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My oh My! Things certainly have gotten complicated.
It was not unusual for my group of moms to sit on the wooden curb that ran along the parameter of the playground at our children’s elementary school on warm spring afternoons. It was on such a day that my friend Wendy, with whom I shared an affection for books, arrived and said, “Nerida,…