Dear MIRIAM: FLING'S SO FOOLISH.Byline: Dr MIRIAM STOPPARD Dear Miriam MY cousin has just confided that she's having an affair with her brother-in-law. I've told her she's a fool. The brother-in-law is a layabout while her husband works to give her and their three children a good life. It's bad enough she's deceiving a lovely man but it seems almost incestuous in·ces·tu·ous adj. 1. Of, involving, or suggestive of incest. 2. Having committed incest. having sex with men from the same family. How can I persuade her to see sense before she gets found out? SEX with her brother-in-law can't be so good it's worth risking everything but, if she believes it is, no amount of nagging from you will change her mind. As they're not related by blood, it's not incestuous but I do understand the connection between the two men in her life is too close for comfort. When their treachery Treachery See also Treason. Aaron plots downfall of Titus. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] Achitophel traitorous Earl of Shaftesbury. [Br. Lit. is discovered, her husband's hurt will be magnified twice and the family will be shattered. I know you want to save her from herself but she's a grown-up grown-up adj. 1. Of, characteristic of, or intended for adults: grown-up movies; a grown-up discussion. 2. and this is her affair, not yours. |
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