As a Bahamian wife who has been in the position of being cheated on and having had numerous opportunities myself to do the deed with someone else's husband, I believe that this issue is primarily born of a society with too many secrets and societal mores demand that Bahamian women pretend not to know that her husband is a cheat. We are conditioned to look the other way and behave the way a "dignified wife" should behave; After all we are the 'secure' one in the love triangle. I did not keep quiet, I confronted the other woman and I confronted my husband, however, after a period of punishing him for his crime, I was encouraged by other women to take my cheating husband back, so as to not allow the other woman to have him all to herself. This conditioning is what most of us grew up with, we have seen this all of our lives, so how do we change what has become the norm? We don't! We go along and hope that nobody notices the cycle which replays itself in many households.
lovlyn says...
As a Bahamian wife who has been in the position of being cheated on and having had numerous opportunities myself to do the deed with someone else's husband, I believe that this issue is primarily born of a society with too many secrets and societal mores demand that Bahamian women pretend not to know that her husband is a cheat. We are conditioned to look the other way and behave the way a "dignified wife" should behave; After all we are the 'secure' one in the love triangle. I did not keep quiet, I confronted the other woman and I confronted my husband, however, after a period of punishing him for his crime, I was encouraged by other women to take my cheating husband back, so as to not allow the other woman to have him all to herself. This conditioning is what most of us grew up with, we have seen this all of our lives, so how do we change what has become the norm? We don't! We go along and hope that nobody notices the cycle which replays itself in many households.
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