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" DEAR E. JEAN : Not to sound like every other whipsawed, witless, tormented person who writes to you, but I&amp;#039;m an educated, successful, financially well-off 32-year-old businesswoman. I married a charismatic, handsome, outgoing man, the CEO of his own booming company, two years ago. I knew he cheated on his first wife with his second wife, and on his second wife with me; and I went into the marriage as the third wife understanding that the shelf life of his fidelity was limited. We bought a house in the country, increased our net worth, began attending awesome society events, and generally had an incredible life. Fast-forward. I caught him having an affair with a woman in our corporate office. In my haste and anger, I retaliated by having a fling with a mutual friend of ours and...surprise! I&amp;#039;ve fallen in love. He is multidimensional, caring, and, best of all, an insane lover. However, he&amp;#039;s not socially ambitious, and, being only a vice president of business affairs, makes no money. I have an extremely comfortable life, a beautiful home, a hot car, and a robust social position. Do I throw it away to be with a man who appears to love only me? Or stay with my husband, who is a known cheater and who I just caught instant-messaging that chick again?! WHAT DO I DO?!\u2014Torn in Two by Two TORN, MY WOLVERINE : Stay with the &amp;quot;known&amp;quot; knave. You knew what you were getting into when you married the fool; the two of you are a conglomerate. Your profits\u2014built on ballsy ambition, hotshotability, and business cunning\u2014show you suit one another better than Oprah and Gayle. You don&amp;#039;t really love that poor VP of business affairs. If you did, you wouldn&amp;#039;t be writing to Auntie Eeee\u2014you&amp;#039;d be halfway to Pago Pago with your lover and you wouldn&amp;#039;t give a flying fig about what you&amp;#039;d left behind. Let the guy go. He&amp;#039;ll be bummed, but soon some pretty girl will come along, use him again, and the world of &amp;quot;business affairs&amp;quot; will spin back on its axis. E-mail your questions to e.jean@askejean.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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