INFIDELITY & LIES
Naturally, sometimes it really is just about sex. But most affairs, says Atlanta psychiatrist Dr. Frank Pittman, the author of a book on infidelity, “are conducted primarily on the telephone rather than in bed. Affairs aren’t as intensely sexual as you’d think. It’s not like in the movies.” The essence of an affair, Pittman says, is in “establishing a secret intimacy with someone” — a secret that necessarily, must be defended with dishonesty. Infidelity, he writes isn’t about “whom you lie with. It’s whom you lie to.” This is an important point. To think of infidelity mainly in terms of sex is actually the first step toward rationalizing it. Quoted from Newsweek, September 30, 1996, “Adultery: A New Furor Over an Old Sin,” pg. 56
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