meera - I didn't really want to comment but I couldn't help myself. I think the whole point of John's story was kind of to show that one can love more than one women and you agree with this but crossing the boundary? doesn't that really depend where people come from? I thought his point was: who defines what the boundary is? his wife? I guess you were talking about the society we live which is like you said: “Not one of them said anything about his cheating on his wife. Why do our society oks for a married male to cheat, reverse the position and all hell breaks loose.” If you can love more than one women then why can’t you have sex with more than one women? It’s not like polygamy isn’t practiced anymore. Hmm..i guess I am trying to say that marriage isn’t really all about sex like you’ve put it. Don’t you think there’s more to marriage than just sex? The whole principal of marriage is a lot more than how you’ve put it. Cheating on his wife okay that’s not good because we said so, wait you said so or cause I said so?? Exactly what he’s trying to say!! You and I said he can’t love more than one women so it makes it wrong? So it’s called cheating on his wife? What about societies where fraternal polyandry is practiced? So brothers share one women, I mean is she cheating on all of them? How would you place something like that? So, the whole point is that everything is just constructed that way so we tend to think of oh wow he likes her and he like her too!! He can’t do that. Why not? I don’t know if you got what I was trying to say. But that’s just how I thought of it. Everything is constructed by us. Our culture, our views and how we think one think is wrong and something else is right. Just like how women who work in homes are given less prestige then women who work in a social atmosphere. Who says that women who are housewives have a job that’s less important than women who are surgeons? And that’s probably why there’s so much tension between wives and husbands. I mean they can’t even talk freely and say that did something because it would be considered wrong?? At the same time if there wasn’t something that was considered to be wrong, then could you do anything you wanted? And I guess there’s not much we can do but just go with the flow of what everyone thinks. So that there are no finger pointed at us because we’re following the rules made up by god knows who!! Anyways, John isnt’ that what you were trying to show or what were you trying to show? Other than what we all know that you’re a superb writer. :D PS: Meera, don’t get me wrong, I also wouldn’t be a happy women if my husband were to cheat on me!! See how I am already part of this bubble too. Lol!!