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That said, to dwell solely on the mistress’s triumph is to forget that she has achieved it with the straying husband’s full complicity—and that it is he, and not his girlfriend, who made mincemeat of a sacred truth. It is his integrity more than anyone else’s that has been weighed and found wanting. In this crucial respect, as awful as it is, the other woman’s victory over the wife is ultimately a Pyrrhic one, for the prize she has won is of questionable value. As I learned from one of the more popular examples in the ever expanding genre of mistress jokes: “When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.”
