# Have you ever been the other person in an affair?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 22, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-the-other-person-in-an-affair/544164 "2010-06-22T20:59:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-the-other-person-in-an-affair/544164/80 "2010-06-24T20:46:34Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> I take some issue with the idea that a partnership that’s been formalized with a piece of paper is somehow inherently more important than one that hasn’t been.

I’d take even bigger issue with the notion that it’s worse when the couple has kids than when they don’t.

If i found out my wife was having an affair, the fact that we don’t have kids would not make me any less hurt or angry.

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