Triangles

Carnal Knowledge

By JoAnn Wypijewski

This article appeared in the July 20, 2009 edition of The Nation.

July 1, 2009

It's hard loving a married man. One who is far away, with a life structured by family and history and expectation, who dreams of freedom but needs the chains.

It's hard being that needed chain, the wife, icon of the known world, blameless victim whose sympathizers nevertheless cannot help daubing with the colors of failure. Poor thing...

It's not supposed to be hard being the married man with the lover and the wife and the life. That's the life!--until he gets caught. Then the slurs come swiftly, predictably: narcissist, cheater, hypocrite, pig.

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About JoAnn Wypijewski

JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer in New York. Contact her at jwyp at earthlink.net. more...
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