SM 1.5 - Infidelity
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prodigalwatcher1.5 - Infidelity
As with so many other things in this world, the idea of infidelity to one's partner is a subject I have come to discover involves a great deal more subtlety in nature than I would previously have thought.
Where once, the very idea of behaving unfaithfully to one's significant other would have been all but anaethema to my sensibilities. I used to think very much in black and white in those days. I was a stranger to the world of moral compromise and of the ream of the gray area.
Romantic fidelity, like any other form of loyalty, I now believe to be a more fluid, conditional situation. What must always be considered when making judgments regarding a situation is the context. To what, or to whom, might this one person be disloyal?
There are in this world loving, healthy and dynamic relationships within which the partners are satisfied and nurtured by one another. They are equals, and the life they share is one that fulfills and is beneficial to them both. I admit that such things are rare, but they do exist.
On the other hand, why would a person be inclined to be faithful to a relationship that has gone stagnant at best, hurtful and unhealthy otherwise? When there is little left but recrimination and guilt and a common distance, what is left? I can't call that a good relationship, and I can understand the impulse under those circumstances to find fulfillment elsewhere.
Of course, I've been the bastard in that situation, and not the poor cuckold. Tables turned, who knows what I might do?
Muse: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Fandom: 'Angel' the series
Word count: 271
As with so many other things in this world, the idea of infidelity to one's partner is a subject I have come to discover involves a great deal more subtlety in nature than I would previously have thought.
Where once, the very idea of behaving unfaithfully to one's significant other would have been all but anaethema to my sensibilities. I used to think very much in black and white in those days. I was a stranger to the world of moral compromise and of the ream of the gray area.
Romantic fidelity, like any other form of loyalty, I now believe to be a more fluid, conditional situation. What must always be considered when making judgments regarding a situation is the context. To what, or to whom, might this one person be disloyal?
There are in this world loving, healthy and dynamic relationships within which the partners are satisfied and nurtured by one another. They are equals, and the life they share is one that fulfills and is beneficial to them both. I admit that such things are rare, but they do exist.
On the other hand, why would a person be inclined to be faithful to a relationship that has gone stagnant at best, hurtful and unhealthy otherwise? When there is little left but recrimination and guilt and a common distance, what is left? I can't call that a good relationship, and I can understand the impulse under those circumstances to find fulfillment elsewhere.
Of course, I've been the bastard in that situation, and not the poor cuckold. Tables turned, who knows what I might do?
Muse: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Fandom: 'Angel' the series
Word count: 271
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