Marriage: Is There a Place for Infidelity?
What a question?! Is there room in your relationship to ask that question? Should there be? Yet, that’s the question being asked by Mark Oppenheimer in his New York Times magazine article, Married, With Infidelities ( Sun. July 3, 2011). He reviews the position of Dan Savage, who says that for many couples, monogamy is not right, that it’s not natural. Savage says we’re not honest about how hard marriage is, how hard monogamy is. Oppenheimer quotes Savage in stating that “the goal of marriage, is ‘stability’ and …