The Secret To French Marriages?
Posted by: Nina Carbone
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2:00PM, Friday June 26th 2009
Infidelity. I can’t decide if I’m totally shocked or wholly unsurprised by the U.K.‘s Daily Mail claim that French women get married knowing (and expecting) their husbands will cheat. When Brit Lucy Wadham married her French boyfriend she had no idea he would keep on keeping on in the bedroom with all of his ex-lovers. She details a night she unknowingly attended what’s called a partouze, subtle French for “group trysts”—only figuring it out after stumbling in on three dinner party guests in a guest bedroom. Infidelity was (and is) a way of life, she explains—and not without her own propositions, either!
This all just brings us back to the universal relationship question—are we or aren’t we built for monogamy? Is marital bliss something to work for or shall we think like the French and embrace our genetic need for multiple partners? [Daily Mail U.K.]
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loveitlala
wrote on June 26 2009 @ 03:08 pm: [report]
This says to me that infideility is at least part cultural.
canadiancutie
wrote on June 28 2009 @ 07:43 pm: [report]
More accurately put?: “Is marital bliss something to work for or shall we think like the French and embrace our genetic need for multiple STD’s?”
jaydh39
wrote on June 28 2009 @ 09:29 pm: [report]
Europeans, or maybe just the French more than others, are just more culturally open to multiple lovers. (At least when comparing their lives/desires to the current standard in the US).
In any relationship though, the partners SHOULD know beforehand what is to be expected. If monogamy is the goal, then cheating shouldn’t be expected OR tolerated.
Jay S.
http://www.cheaterzzz.com
retro chic
wrote on June 28 2009 @ 10:17 pm: [report]
Her’s is a perspective of a Brit in France. I just think that what makes something work/not work in one country does not nec translate to another—or for that Brit in the article, either. I agree it is a cultural thing for France’s trysts, but also a historical one that has worked thru much of their attitudes about it, one way or the other.
Also, Frisky, you had a similar article about French dating, but had a click thru link with a section on marriage/infidelity about halfway down, about “The Five-To-Seven” after-work-predinner-tryst, and the French-on-French perspective on that, which gives their own, not foreign, take on it. They are not as given over to it as one might think from this Brit woman’s article.
http://www.yourtango.com/200916025/secret-dating-french-woman?page=0,1