I've just driven home from a friends birthday party - feeling absolutely furious!
I met a woman that I hadn't met before. We talked about a variety of subjects - psychology being one. One subject lead to another and she randomly told me that she understands being in an altered reality state herself. When was that I asked, curious.
The answer was, 'when I had an affair with a married man'.
I asked how she felt about it, and she said it was a very easy thing to slip into, and as she has no respect whatsoever for relationships, she didn't feel any remorse for being involved with a married man with kids.
She said she doesn't believe that relationships can last 'for ever' and he was hers for the taking.
I asked where she got that idea from, her family? No, she said it was in her early 20's when she was constantly targeted by 'unhappy' married men.
I couldn't help myself and had to ask 'what was it about you that kept attracting that sort of man?'
She looked genuinely stunned, and said that was a good question and that she'd have to think about it.
Her nonchalance truly floored me. She was far from a creature of outward beauty, and I have to say I saw little inner beauty either.
I'm a bit gob smacked and feel I was meant to have met her tonight and have that conversation.
I know she's not the OW in my marriage, but the conversation brought up huge emotions for me anyway.
I must have lived a very sheltered life, as I've never had a conversation like that before in my life.
She was the first to leave the party tonight, and I watched her go around the room and say goodbye to EVERY MALE in the room, and not one single female. Says it all .................