Woman Letters.
LAST week we printed the story of a serial mistress. She told how her illicit affairs with married men were "exciting" and gave her a buzz. Here's how Mirror Woman readers reacted to her controversial views...FOR the last 10 years, I have been a mistress. I'm sure people think that means I go around dripping in jewels, driving a fast car, and that I am completely self-centred. No doubt they think I should be treated with disdain and contempt.
But I did not set out to steal another woman's husband or child's father. Nor did I set out to deceive my family or friends, and put myself through the hell of loving a man who belongs to another woman.
When I met him I was 19, a shy, gentle, innocent virgin. As my father left my mother for another woman, I decided I didn't want to be responsible for such pain. I'd seen, felt and heard how upset she was and I was not going to get involved with a married man.
I fell in love with the man, with my heart - not with my mind.
I have never benefited financially from him. All we have is what we give each other emotionally and physically.
I left my home, family and friends, endured loneliness in big impersonal cities to be near him. The love for this man isn't reasonable, is not moral, it just exists.
We have tried to let each other go. We don't want to hurt anyone else. Tell me how to stop loving him, how to take my heart out and still be able to live, and I'll do it.
Yes I am a "mistress", No, I'm not cold, unfeeling or mercenary.
Name and address supplied
HAS anyone else noticed how the celebrity mistresses in your feature are all self-seeking publicists? Antonia de Sancha was a wannabe actress, Fiona Wright a wannabe celebrity and Lynne Perrie just desperate for attention.
They are only making themselves look pathetic, and the men that fall for them even worse. Their wives must have wondered what they ever saw in them.
S Bailey, Cumbria
I HAD a slight flirtation with a rather attractive married man, but that was enough for me.
I can't imagine spending evenings wondering if he will call, whether he is telling his wife it's over or what lies he is spinning her to get away.
C Marten Eastbourne, E Sussex
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| Title Annotation: | Features |
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| Publication: | The Mirror (London, England) |
| Date: | Mar 13, 1996 |
| Words: | 404 |
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