Let's Face the Music and Dance

Why is it that once your boyfriend/ex-boyfriend/boyfriend/guy you spent five years mooning over/ex-boyfriend/boyfriend breaks up with you for the FINAL time and promises to be your best friend it almost always ends up being a lie?

Let's face the music and dance.

Newsweek's cover article this week was about women and infidelity. "The New Infidelity." (Scroll down.) Breaking statistics on how the number of women who cheat during a marriage is rising, almost matching the number of men who cheat.

My favorite part is "Confessions of a Personal Trainer." Some jackass who thought it was completely okay to sleep with fourty or fifty married women. He can't even remember, or care to say, how many women. He believes he was making them "feel good." Yeah.

I think what bothers me most is that one or two sentences, out of pages of article, actually mention why the women began cheating. Instead, it focuses on where to find the men who will lower their standards and sleep with a married woman. It talks about how to protect the children. It takes something immoral, wrong, and stupid, and makes it commonplace. Something "everyone" does. Part of society's norms.

In the editoral section a woman wrote in complaining that Spiderman2 made the cover article of last week's Newsweek. She complained that out of all the events going on in our world last week, a movie release of a kid's comic book hero was most important to Newsweek.

Perhaps she should reconsider. I'd rather read a story about a not-so-super hero than be disgraced to read about how to find a man who will cheat with me, or the chat room I can go to if I'm lonely and my "hubby" is working late.

Sigh.