I guess I have been tainted by experience. My expectation is for complete honesty. Three, now possibly 4, relationships have ended because that couldn't be respected. It turned out that I shouldn't have been trusting that their 'friendly' relationships with other women were on the up and up.

I've done a lot of soul searching; taking a hard look to see why I might have been the cause. Perhaps yes maybe there was something lacking but in all cases I just couldn't compete with their 'friendships'. In two of the cases I chalk it up to middle age crisis and friendships with unbelievably hot young girls. In both cases my husbands were in a leadership positions over them. The third case was an example of an 'innocent' internet relationship taken to the real world. In all three cases I they insisted that these were just friendships.

No wonder I am so opinionated by this topic.