Dear Lazibirrd (little tip - your name spelt this way is so much more now isn't it?), I have met the most wonderful man - gorgeous, charming, rich, clever - I am so happy!! Just one teeny weeny problemette Lazibirrd - he is married. I just know you will have an opinion on this for me - well you are French aren't you, and every one knows the French are opinionated - oh no offence meant Lazibirrd! And anyway, French women are well known for having affairs with anyone as long as they are rich, so I just know you'll understand! Still, I'd better not tell you his name just in case you run off with him!! (Just kidding Lazibirrd)Anyway Mr P as I'll call him is just perfect for me, but what to do about the wife? Apparently she has really let herself go - although they have been married for over a year now so perhaps she thinks she is safe with that huge diamond on her finger. She's boring and whines on all the time - really Mr P is a saint to put up with her! My question Ladibirrd: do I write her just a little note revealing his true feelings for moi? (See what I did there Ladibirrd, trying to make you feel at ease!) Am breathless with anticipation at your reply!!! Deidre
Bonjour Deidre,
Okay, Yes this is a probleme. Wait, I must get some wine.
That's better. Alors. The BIG probleme that you have is that you forgot you are the maitresse of this man. Here in Paris, the mistress doesn't want to marry him, or live with him. She wants his money and his part-time attentions. For the man the mistress is someone who spoils him and who remains thin and fine when the wife is busy with childrens. It's a complicite - the wife has what she wants, a riche house and her bebes, so the man he gets his toys, and this includes you perhaps? Generally, and of course people can be different I suppose, when the man takes a mistress he has his cake. He has the wife and children in one house and then he has another woman who is young, tight (the body, yes? flat stomache, things like this), in another place. He sees the mistress in different bars than his wife - they should never meet each other - when he goes out with the mistress he goes out with his friends and their mistresses. When he goes out with his wife then he goes out with his friends and their wives. Here in France we have the cinq a sept - the hours when a man can be 'late home from work' with no questions from his wife. It's all very well organised. But you can't cross from one to the other - it breaks the regime. We don't admit to these arrangements, they just happen. A mistress, marrying the lover and then joining the wives?! Oh darling, it's not possible!Take this charmer for all that you can - cars, jewellery, a wine cellar. Did he buy you an apartment yet - perhaps you need to work harder until you achieve this. After that, change the keys, and you can bring home all other younger men and enjoy your wine cellar laughing all night at the thoughts that your old lover is an idiot with a fat wife. Alternatively, you may actually want to be a married woman... in which case I have a great friend, Berty. He's bald you know but is so gentle with his guinea pig. Maybe you can meet? Lzb
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ReplyDeleteYes this is a probleme. Wait, I must get some wine.
That's better.
Alors. The BIG probleme that you have is that you forgot you are the maitresse of this man. Here in Paris, the mistress doesn't want to marry him, or live with him. She wants his money and his part-time attentions. For the man the mistress is someone who spoils him and who remains thin and fine when the wife is busy with childrens. It's a complicite - the wife has what she wants, a riche house and her bebes, so the man he gets his toys, and this includes you perhaps?
Generalmente, and of course people can be different I suppose, when the man takes a mistress he has his cake. He has the wife and children in one house and then he has another woman who is young, tight (the body, yes? flat stomache, things like this), in another place. He sees the mistress in different bars than his wife - they should never meet each other - when he goes out with the mistress he goes out with his friends and their mistresses. When he goes out with his wife then he goes out with his friends and their wives. Here in France we have the cinq a sept - the hours when a man can be 'late home from work' with no questions from his wife. It's all very well organised. But you can't cross from one to the other - it breaks the regime. We don't admit to these arrangements, they just happen. A mistress, marrying the lover and then joining the wives?! Oh darling, it's not possible!
Take this charmer for all that you can - cars, jewellery, a wine cellar. Did he buy you an apartment yet - perhaps you need to work harder until you achieve this. After that, change the keys, and you can bring home all other younger men and enjoy your wine cellar laughing all night at the thoughts that your old lover is an idiot with a fat wife.
Alternatively, you may actually want to be a married woman... in which case I have a great friend, Berty. He's bald you know but is so gentle with his guinea pig. Maybe you can meet?
Lzb
I think women spend far too much time sizing each other up and being in competition with each other. The wife, of which you speak, may only have let herself go because her husband is turning his attentions to other women, she could be depressed, god lord, he could be a complete monster in the privacy of his own home. You have the opportunity of never knowing, by staying his mistress. You may find a happy situation by helping him stay in a healthy marriage- by not being sucked into spoiling your lover, and feeding his prejudices, to make up for a wife who appears lacking (he then goes home and wonders why his wife is no longer giving him imprompteu lovin' as soon as he arrives, serving champagne from your belly button, etc.)ANYWAY I'm saying, I don't judge, I think sometimes marriages survive because there are more than 2 people involved, but don't kick the poor cow when she's down, if you win him, you will never stop looking over your shoulder- after all, by leaving for a 'better model' you are giving him permission to do it again? or am I being too flaming sword, here?
ReplyDeleteHello anonymous, yes darling, you have important thoughts. I don't like this expression 'win him' - a man is just a man, he is not a goldfish or a medal at the Olympics. Women can be too occupied with the competition when sometimes we can work together to be happy ourselves not always thinking about the man's happiness, do you agree. I agree that sometimes marriage is best when there is 3 people there, for others this is not possible and they can't bear it. In France, where there is 3 in the marriage and it is tolerated, the affairs are for sex and excitement and something apart from the everyday life, something to escape to, and the marriage is for washing clothes, and talking about children, and choosing a car and when your mother can visit. It doesn't sound so passionate does it? But it is suitable to the people in it. My marriage was like this. It was dull but I felt safe. Really I think we were two people who shared the same apartment and liked to drink tea. Lzb
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