Tag: affair with a married man

• Essay: Being the Other Woman: What It’s Actually Like, What Nobody Warns You About, and How to Protect Yourself

  Rachel is forty-one, works in commercial property in Bristol, and has been seeing a married man for fourteen months. She does not call herself the other woman. Nobody does, out loud. The phrase belongs to soap operas and Sunday supplements, and it never quite fits the actual experience, which is mostly ordinary — a coffee…