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Indiscretions Roosting

When engaged in illicit relationships people never think toward the future, that some unforeseen occasion may release information they would far rather remain discreetly hidden. As in multiple intimate relationships. As in having a legally-wed wife, and on the side a mistress. Or two, even more. Some men are extraordinarily dexterous in handling such affairs. And most women are amazingly resentful of such affairs.

Imagine, if you're a man who has never revealed to his wife that he has conducted amours over the years, and still indulges in them, and you're suddenly indisposed, unable to protect yourself from discovery, and all is revealed. Incriminating revelations resulting in indefensible realities. That old adage, of "what a web we weave, when first we practise to deceive", is never so true as when intimacies are revealed that leave someone out in the cold.

Of the thirty-three miners trapped deep underground in Chile, it now transpires that many were Lotharios in their private lives. Their wives, unaware of these indiscretions, are now aware. the pain of knowing that their husbands are trapped deep in the rocky interior of the Earth is now compounded by the pain they experience at the knowledge that their trust was betrayed. That they have rivals for the affections of their husbands.

And all revealed because of the compensation being offered to the families of the trapped miners. At "Camp Hope", the families of the trapped miners have come face to face with a reality they little imagined, as they meet up with other women who are laying claim to compensation on the basis that they are the true loved ones, not the wives.

Some of the women showing up who were living without benefit of marriage in what the miners might have considered to be casual relationships, have themselves discovered that the men whom they had taken as being unattached, were in fact, married. Welfare authorities and psychologists have their work cut out for them, in trying to sort out the domestic turmoil, adding untold stress to the fears already traumatizing the miners' families.

One of the trapped men, busy underground using basic first-aid training to treat medical problems in the underground refuge will have much to answer for when he finally emerges. His wife met another woman at the camp, both holding vigil for the same man. The other woman claims the legitimate wife's husband to be hers. "He loves me and I am his devoted wife", claims the other woman.

Another miner, separated but not divorced from his wife, has a live-in partner, and another woman with whom he fathered a child, and yet another woman claiming to be his current mistress and they are all there, at the camp; one great big unhappy family of dire circumstances. The men, who have not yet been informed of this unforeseen turn of events, might be better off where they are, than surfacing.

The hell they think they're inhabiting may seen like heaven in retrospect when they are finally rescued and come face to face with their irate and inconsolable spouses, legal and otherwise.

Labels: Human Fallibility, Human Relations

posted by Pieface @ Friday, September 03, 2010