Soy I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?

[The New York Times]

Even if somehow you manage to marry--such as by moneyMaxxing--this is what awaits you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/magazine/wife-affair-ethics.html

I have been married for many years, and I still love and care deeply about my partner. Over the past year, she had an affair, and I knew about it from the beginning. She said that she needed it, that it gave her vitality, that she enjoyed a sexual freedom she had longed for and that she felt it was wrong to do this in secret and without my consent. I agreed; what she said made sense to me, and she convincingly assured me this was no threat to our relationship. At the same time, I always suffered when she was away with her affair partner and could not find a way to take this easily.

She recently decided to break it off because the overall emotional burden for both of us was too great. But while she is grieving about it, I feel relieved. Even though I wish that I could have better coped with a situation I rationally and ethically consider OK, it conflicted with something deeper inside me that I can’t easily change.

My question is: Should I feel sorry for my wife? At the moment, I don’t. I understand her feelings and I care about her, but at the same time I feel it is not my job to console her for this particular loss. What do you think about this? — Name Withheld

Oy Vey! Feel sorry for your wife for cheating on you!

Welcome to 21th century America!

 

[AutistSupremacist]

if your wife has an affair it's time to send your wife to meet Jesus (in postal 2 tho)

 

[SupremeSaint]

if your wife has an affair it's time to send your wife to meet Jesus (in postal 2 tho)

 

[Todd Thundercock]

what the fuck

 

[The New York Times]

what the fuck

Its in The New York Times!!!

 

[Adolf Kitler]

 

[The Supreme Goyim]

JFL, put TNT under her bed and light it with flint and steel (in her Minecraft world)

 

[outerdarkness]

Least cucked relationship in 2026.

 

[Epedaphic]

The newspaper publishing this used to be extremely highly regarded... looks like they aren't even trying anymore.

 

[GreerTech Creations]

The NYT cuck;

 

[Tetsuya]

if your wife has an affair it's time to send your wife to meet Jesus (in postal 2 tho)

 

[Sub5failure]

"She said that she needed it, that it gave her vitality"

No amount of betabuxxing or socialstatus maxxing can change foid's nature

 

[Sub5failure]

Least cucked relationship in 2026.

 

[Altunyiskon]

"Sexual freedom" is so fucking stupid. There's a reason sex releases specific chemicals in the brain. It's because it's meant to be an emotional act between two partners who love each other. It's meant to connect you. It's not meant to be only for pleasure. Normies are so fucking retarded. It's still not that normalised in most countries but if hookup culture becomes normalised globally ISTG I will go insane.

 

[ogercel]

Wouldnt have happened with Sharia Law just saying

 

[Pikacel]

:/ foid worship lol

 

[Pikacel]

Wouldnt have happened with Sharia Law just saying

 

[Itsoverm8]

 

[Sir Silentium]

If only the real NYT aired this

 

[Guatemalancel]

if your wife has an affair it's time to send your wife to meet Jesus (in postal 2 tho)

the wife

 

[younghamburgergod]

 

[fokusin]

Avg IT "Chad"

 

[PhineasSpear]

Least cucked relationship in 2026.

 

[worst man alive]

if your wife has an affair it's time to send your wife to meet Jesus (in postal 2 tho)

>meet jesus
they aren't going to heaven bro

 

[chudcel]

Don't worry I'm sure your wife will find a new chad.