How to Cheat

Don’t Let Your Affair Partner Blow Up Your Life

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) might help

Teresa J Conway 🧚🏻‍♀️
The Scarlett Letter
4 min readAug 3, 2020

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What do you do when your affair partner tries to blow up your life? You blow up their life.

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a doctrine that ensures both parties are destroyed no matter who dropped the bomb first.

MAD = everyone dies, or no one dies.

MAD is about preventing the worst. If you and your affair partner each have something to lose (like everything), you’ll both want to protect yourselves.

“Oh, that’s terrible!” you say.

How can two people have a relationship based on not destroying each other? This is an affair, not a healthy relationship. Your marriage is on the line, remember!

For MAD to work, your affair partner should have as much or more to lose as you do. If your affair partner has less to lose than you, the risk of them destroying your life increases because they don’t have skin in the game.

Lesson #1-the singles:

This is why you should avoid single people. They might try to ruin your life just to have you for themselves. The other type of person who might want to destroy your…

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