Why wives of cheating men often end up far HAPPIER
My heart goes out to the two wives whose marriages have collapsed after their Scottish MP husbands both had affairs with the same selfpromoting, sexually rapacious political scribe
Stewart hosie, 53, and angus MacNeil, 45, left their wives and families after falling under the highly calculating spell of Serena Cowdy, 36.
It is hard to think of a more souldestroying experience for those wives. Not just the knowledge that their husbands have been unfaithful, their lives shattered and their children left bewildered, but the public humiliation that comes with being traded in for a younger, sexier woman.
that is their reward for having done the lioness’s share of running the family home and caring for the children while their husbands were away in Westminster, stroking their pathetic little egos and hopping into bed with a floozy.
yet however great a kick in the teeth this is for these two women, I hope it is some comfort for them to know that, in the long run, the mistress seldom wins.
In many cases, an affair brings a husband to his senses. he realises how much he faces losing, and recommits to his marriage in a more meaningful way.
Look at those adulterers John Prescott and Jeffrey archer. In both cases, their marriages have not only survived public humiliation, but are stronger than ever.
On the other hand, if the betrayal has been too great and the marriage falls apart, many humiliated ex-wives find far THE Remain Camp is accused of trying to smear Boris Johnson’s wife Marina with the preposterous rumour that she’d been caught in a drunken clinch with a fellow lawyer at Waterloo station last summer. Given how often her husband has been caught with his zipper down, I suspect voters from all sides would rejoice if she ever did find a little extra-marital comfort of her own. greater happiness in a new relationship of their own, usually with men who treat them with far more affection and loyalty than their lousy exes ever did.
those wives, of course, have the added compensation of a considerable chunk of the ex-husband’s cash post-divorce.
AS FOR ‘other women’ like the very ambitious Ms Cowdy, they would do well to recall serial philanderer and billionaire James Goldsmith’s maxim: when a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy. If a young mistress persuades her middle-aged man to commit to a proper relationship — a big ‘if’ — she can never have a moment’s peace wondering if he’ll revert to his unfaithful ways with a younger, sexier woman when he tires of her. Once a cheat, always a cheat.
however heartbroken Shona hosie and Jane McNeil may be, I hope in time they find men worthy of them. their future happiness will be the best revenge. In the meantime, at least there’ll be no more M&S y-fronts to iron.