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STILETTO – a high pointed HEEL on a woman’s shoe or a small dagger. WHEELS – a medieval instrument of torture or a vehicle for personal mobility. |
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Is it perfectly all right for a woman to be friends with a married man ... just as long as they don't have sex? |
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And yet the wife, watching helplessly, knows that her husband is giving away his best bits - the bits that, rightfully, she thinks should be hers. He is giving away confidences, concerns, plans, ideas and excitement that, in a healthy marriage, he would bring to her. It ought to be the quid pro quo of their relationship that they each take on dreary duties - including gas bills - and in return they share the high points. Instead, this wife has all the dreariness without the reward. For instance: nobody, ever, tells a story properly more than once. We might enhance it with practice; edit, maybe, for effect. But that first, passionate, garbled telling, be it good or bad news, only carries the heart with it once. If a man tells it first to his "friend", all he brings home to his wife is the second-hand, slightly spent version, his elation already sated and his mind already moved on. Make no mistake, this is a woman being cheated on. You know that, I know that, and we all know that. If any similar "just-good-friend", wants to say she had nothing whatsoever to do with a damaged marriage, then she is either staggeringly disingenuous, or kidding herself, or lacking the imagination to ask and answer a simple question: sex or no sex, did she ever take something that, really, was not hers for the taking? Extracts from 'Who's she trying to kid? The girl who bewitched 'Dear Bill' insists it was just platonic ...' By CAROL SARLER |
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