Henry Pergament was a businessman, entrepreneur and chemistry genius. By the time I was born, he'd raised several fortunes and had two families and half a dozen children in and out of wedlock. I have memories from my childhood that I wish I didn't: One night when I was about 10, I was at dinner with my sister, my father and his friend Mike. I overheard my dad say, "What have I been up to? What men are up to when they're not with their wives."
Daily life in my family found my sisters, my mother and me running around the house like it was a disrupted anthill, my father somewhere off-screen. He worked hard and was often in absentia. But as I started to understand the adult world in increments, I wondered: Was he with another woman when he could be home teaching me to take a picture/drive a stick shift/make potato pancakes?
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Monday 03 August
By s
Let's keep this conversation bible free. Regardless of it being in the bible or not no one wants to be cheated on. Anyway, not everyone cheats. Even if it known to run in the family of being cheaters or whatever. We all have a choice to change ourselves to be better people. That's no excuse. We can understand why we do things psychologically but at the same time we all can change and stop the things we don't wanna do.
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Monday 03 August
By s
If you're in a relationship with someone I would expect someone to want to be loyal and faithful to that person only. If you have a problem with being with only that person then don't be with anyone at all. There are plenty of people who will be friends with benefits etc. People have no shame these days and too concerned about pleasure. How about diseases? Did you ever consider that? Anyway, I feel sad for the people who say cheating doesn't exist with boyfriend and girlfriend and only in marriage. Let's see how you'd feel being 'cheated' on by a boyfriend or girlfriend. People only say what makes them feel better not what reality really is. They only want to say what is in their favor but when it happens to them they want to think differently when its too late.
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Sunday 30 August
By Yasir Khan
After reading this, i regret getting married. You never know when your spouse is cheating. You try to confront and they deny and cover up all the tracks and trails. I dont know but now days, cheating has become very common and no matter how faithful i am to my wife, it is hard to trust and when there is no trust, there is no point of staying in the relationship. It just kills me.
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