Come the weekend, a co-worker sent me an email: "My husband slept with the nanny!"
Having been on the receiving end of such scenarios, I got really caught up in my girl friends' plights. And once again, I was thrown into a conundrum of lies, anger, pain.
Why do people in relationships have affairs? How can people be "intimate" with more than one person at the same time? Can someone really be "in love" with more than one person? How can one even think of hurting someone he/she loves?
I do not have the answers. All I know is that, these things do happen, rightly or wrongly. And that, knowing the pain and brokenness these can cause, I can only pray that I do not get to be on the giving end and be the other woman. Why? It's like having all guns pointed right at you. You're faced with bearing everyone's pain -- the wife's/girlfriend's, the kids' (if any), your lover's (if love is real), and yours. Now, why would anyone want that?
I mean, really. Think about it.
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