Ashley Madison is an online dating site that caters to people who are married. They've done some insightful studies on who patronizes their services, and how. This particular article is anecdotal, not quantitative, and also reveals relationship patterns that we see in gaming all the time. This is what some of these "lady Don Drapers" have to say:
Anyone else see a pattern here? If any of you cats have used this website, I'd like to hear your experiences...
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Though Megan says her husband is "super-vanilla" and can barely handle her, she tells Wayne that she sticks around because they "have a really happy and functional house" and "he's also a fantastic guy and father."
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"I don't believe any one person ever fulfills a person's needs," she says. "And lifelong passion is extremely rare. If I left [my husband] and married someone else, it'd probably just be a matter of time until I had the same situation. It's unusual for a strong sexual component to remain after a few years, and I'm not willing to give up that part of my life."
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The last woman Wayne profiles is Laura, a corporate-type stuck in a loveless and sexually unsatisfying marriage to a husband who lacks ambition. To compensate for what's missing at home, Laura seeks out "very rich and older and dominant" men online.
"In the workplace, it should be equal," she says. "But in the house, the only way it works is if there's a strong masculine and feminine component. You need to give your husband a blow job every day. He should feel like a king. Seeking it out in my sexual life is to make up for it in my real life. I want my husband to be dominant and more successful. I don't want to be the man in the relationship."
Anyone else see a pattern here? If any of you cats have used this website, I'd like to hear your experiences...