Originally posted by doghead these same women do not suffer from cognitive dissonance when they sleep with men who have SOs. To me as a guy, this is a major 'the pot calling the kettle black' dissonance...these women now are the 3rd party (mistress/gf) of committed men with SO. I don't agree. I think they are being totally consistent in their actions. When it is their man that is cheating, they leave because they only see him as the problem. When they are the third party, to them, it is the man that is compromising, not them.
Their issue rests in both cases with the perspective that it is the man who is the problem in each situation. I would call it self-justification.
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