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Just as abortion should be entirely a matter between a woman and her doctor, continuing (or not continuing) a marriage after infidelity is entirely a decision of the couple, NO ONE ELSE!
Just as, for some, abortion is a significant emotional trauma, but for others it is not, likewise infidelity is a greater or lesser emotional trauma for different couples.
What is more intriguing, and more disturbing, is the subtext of the article, which is that there should be a single set of rules which must be applied to every marriage and every couple, which must be applied in every instance, with a strict and unvarying set of consequences. Gee, sounds familiar -- kind of like the old, rigid, patriachal, abusive system of marriage which I thought we were slowly outgrowing as a culture.
