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Being the other woman
8 January 2008
A new BBC drama is set to explore life as the lover of a married man.
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Mistresses starts on Friday and stars Sarah Parrish as a woman who has been secretly having an affair for two years, keeping it from everyone, including her friends and family.
Orla Brady and Shelley Conn also star in a controversial drama that humanises the adulterer and forces us to reject labels such as 'monster'.
Parrish told the Scotsman the topic of adultery remained firmly taboo. "You can't sit in the pub with your mates and ask who's had affairs; that would break up marriages there and then."
There have been other attempts to offer the perspective of the wronger rather than the wronged, such as Sarah Symonds' book Having an Affair? A Handbook for the Other Woman.
Symonds, a former mistress of disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer, says there are upsides to adultery.
Christine Webber, agony aunt for Woman magazine, agrees - but with a crucial caveat.
"Affairs can be exhilarating, exciting, passionate and romantic," she accepts. "They can also - more commonly - be damaging, destructive, cruel, painful, time-wasting and demeaning."
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