The divorce was seven years ago, and the girl is now 26. The other day, a girl sobbed on my shoulder over her parentsвЂ™ break-up. Thirty years later, I have seen too many good-enough relationships go to the wall over some infidelity, with all the bitterness and wild regret that comes in its wake. The self-righteous twentysomething me, most ignorant of what she was most assured, would have abhorred the French distinction between marriage and sex. We all need to be a bit more understanding. ItвЂ™s not infidelity that breaks up homes, no, itвЂ™s the unbearable demands of monogamy. I like how these moralizing idiots blame monogamy for societyвЂ™s ills.

Personally, I prefer being estranged from the happiness that comes from marriage to a remorseless cheater. Yes, the ones who suck up their humiliation are inexplicably happier for it while those who вЂњplay the victimвЂќ - well folksвЂ¦ they die. How ironic that the hospital Miss Trierweiler fled to is the same one in which Diana later died - divorced, alone and a stranger to happiness. Instead, Miss Trierweiler appears to be following Princess DianaвЂ™s blueprint for seeing off the mistress - brief the newspapers, play the victim, get the public on side in the PR battleвЂ‰.вЂ‰.вЂ‰.вЂ‰and lose your man in the process. These women kept the tears and the rows behind closed doors, rose above the fray in public - and today are still happily married, with children unscathed by divorce. Just as Victoria Beckham did when David dallied with Rebecca Loos. No, if you decide to stick with a cheat, you have to suck it in - the pain, the devastation, the depression - however much it hurts and humiliates. This nugget of crazy from the Daily Mail. The essential thing is that you Keep The Family Together.ДЄnd not become one of those pathetic single people. Your job is not to ask too many questions. His job is not to embarrass you publicly with his philandering. Recognize that the man (sorry, itвЂ™s usually always a man) needs his little bits on the side to feel vital. So I was reading some of the editorials around French president HollandeвЂ™s philandering, and I was struck by this bizarre moralizing that really the most important thing to do in a situation like this is suck it up.

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