When Infidelity Advice Goes All Wrong

It’s Not the Other Person’s Fault

Kathryn Dickel
Nov 2 · 8 min read
Photo by Francisco Gonzalez on Unsplash

Rage, disruption, pain, heartache, agony, and a slight sense of despair — these are all things Chris expresses when discussing the moments when he runs into the co-worker who had an affair with his girlfriend. Chris is a man featured in the following advice column from The Atlantic that tripped across my feed today. In it, he expresses the…

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