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Old Feb 01, 2013, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
I would not have done it. I would have written: "Thank you for your interest and thanks for putting me on notice about your marriage situation. My personal rule is to date men who are either single or divorced. I wish you luck in everything."

An analogy - many years ago I was interviewed by a NYC law firm for a summer associate position. The woman who was my main interviewer went on and on about her tobacco defense practice. Tobacco defense was hot in the 1990s. I happened to think that it was wrong to engage in tobacco defense - that the firm was on the wrong side of the road, so to speak. The firm gave me an offer. I wrote a nice thank you letter rejecting the offer. I did not write that I disapproved of the firm's involvement in and earning money from tobacco defense, because nobody asked for my opinion on that matter. They were nice enough to extend their offer, and I reciprocated with being nice enough to thank them for it and reject it in a polite way.

In your situation, you think that it is wrong of him to seek another sexual partner while remaining in a sexless marriage. Did he ask for your opinion on that matter? He did not. So your reaction was unsolicited.

I believe that even though it is a quasi-anonymous online environment, the same rules of polite and courteous behavior apply as everywhere else.
Not that I think that you did anything horrible, of course, Yoda, but just offering to treat this environment just as we treat other environments with offers and rejections (jobs, college placement, graduate programs, internships, and so on and so forth). In those environments, if we do not like something, we are either nice enough to take the trouble and write a short thank-you-rejection letter, or we ignore the offers altogether and do not bother. Anything else is uncalled for.