Why It’s Really Hard To Cheat When You’re Married

Some years ago, my newspaper sent me abroad to cover a soccer tournament. As my newspaper is run by cheapskates, I ended up sharing a hotel room with two fellow journalists. That would have been fine, except that one of the two liked to hit the local bars every night. He was a good-looking guy, and he’d invariably end up in fascinating conversations with nice girls. But he was also engaged to be married, and so, each night, painfully, at about 3 a.m., he would detach from the conversation and return to the hotel, waking us up to lament yet another missed opportunity. He had stumbled on perhaps the great issue of modern marriage: how not to commit adultery. In the past, when most women…
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