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I've been a cheater since my very first boyfriend and no one has ever found out.
  • This is the single most disturbing letter Cary has published. I feel ill.

    LW,

    Why did you write to Cary? I find your letter alarming as you very likely suffer from a serious psychological disorder, and may well be a sociopath or a borderline personality. You have a profound lack of empathy and seem to have no innerness or even an appropriate level of moral self-awareness. Your behavior is terribly cruel and selfish, and it absolutely will come back to haunt your relationship (I know people who have cheated and those who have suffered the terrible effects of being cheated on by a trusted partner). Don't delude yourself: the sex-buddy friend you treat so carelessly may well decide he wants more and will make your life hell. Or he will dump you, after informing your husband. Your husband deserves better than you and he may figure that out.

    You are a serial cheater who does not feel guilt? Who has not remotely matured or learned to feel respect and empathy for others? Why in the hell did you marry again? Since the vows are utterly meaningless to you, why did you lie through your teeth when you spoke them to your husband? I feel terrible sadness for him as he got stuck with a self-centered risk taker who doesn't feel much of anything but delight in her own impulse-gratification.

    You frankly don't deserve any generous responses from Salon LWs as you have already excused your own monstrous behavior and I am sure that we will not make any impression on you whatsoever, given that you care not at all for your husband's feelings (or your first husband's feelings or your friend's feelings and so on and so on).