Is your boyfriend married?
Been there! If you’re one of the millions of women who are an affair partner right now, I want to help you with the struggle.
Being an affair partner can be lonely and isolating.
We often can’t talk to friends or family about it. Nearly every portrayal in the media vilifies us. We get thrown “data” about how unlikely it is to work out, though there are no reliable statistics on that at all. As a feminist myself, it especially drives me batty to hear we’re somehow “betraying the sisterhood” by being the Other Woman.
In my experience — both in my personal past and now as a professional counselor working with affair partners — these relationships are complicated.
We never thought we’d be in this position, but here we are.
Support for the Other Woman (www.theotherwoman.me) is the only dedicated place online for the Other Woman to receive kind acceptance and advice, with zero judgment, from a licensed therapist who’s been where you are.
It’s everything I wish someone had told me when I was the Other Woman.
Look, whether or not you stay with him and whether or not he stays with her, you will be ok. 💛
What will you find here?
Mental health support, with no judgement, specific to your time as the Other Woman.
Wisdom and insight from Other Women just like you, drawn from interviews I’ve done with affair partners.
Advice, specific to questions you submit about your experience (for paid subscribers.)
Why subscribe?
Paid subscribers get full access to the blog and publication archives. Most of the posts will be available to paid readers only, primarily because I know this can be a controversial topic and I want to keep my focus on helping women.
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