This week we will take a break from talking about extra-marital affairs. There is an assignment at the end  of this article. Before that one, I want you to look forward to next week’s post. I will be running a series on “How To Affair-Proof Your Marriage.”

This weekend, do just one thing: Look at your spouse’s face for 5 minutes and go back to your beginnings. See what comes to your mind. You will be amazed how far you have come! Trust me.

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Okay, still on the extra marital affairs issue, I was wondering why “extra” has to be in it at all. By design, a marital affair should not have extra, I mean, it’s not like pizza should have toppings or my cell phone should have a handsfree kit. You get the picture. So why should we not have extra marital affairs? I have been thinking about this and here is what I have come up with so far;

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You are in the office and that assignment just has to be done before you knock off at 5 because your boss is breathing fire and brimstone on you neck…and it’s 4:50. Twenty minutes later you are still a long way off from completion. You feel like you are running on empty, get the picture? (Pun intended) And this happens every other day. Something is wrong, very wrong.

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Of late I have been thinking a lot about this area. Usually we think of someone having an extra marital affair (hereinafter called affair) with someone other than your husband/wife. An affair basically includes someone or something in a relationship that is exclusive. Read that again. I said read that again.

The result is that the spouse who is supposed to enjoy exclusivity become isolated. And isolation, as one girl described it, is when “someone excludes you” (Staying Close by Denis Rainey).

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