Anna’s Adventures

I am reading A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom. Though I am not looking for a husband, or a wife, or a partner, I find it enthralling to see how my own attitudes to sex, love and partnership are shaped by very old traditions. My favorite parts are reading about the people who had separate relationships for family, partnership, sex and love.

I wonder what she will say (if anything) about polyamoury, polyfidelity and “swinging”?

This is what I heard this morning. “You think you can do anything you like because you are a woman and you are weak”. A pithy summary of the state of play between Kal and I. He can do what he wants because I am staying at his house, and he thinks I can do what I want without repercussion because he won’t hurt a woman.

None of it is true.