A study says spurned women will benefit from the experience in the relationship long run. But really,when it comes to love the best you can achieve is hope for the bestThere are many reasons to be grateful that a man cheated on you. Now you can write authentic country songs, for instance, or catch solace in the fact that the other woman will have to find space for his prog rock CDs in her one-bed. You might even be grateful to have the bed to yourself,or to be spared another five years of frantically going through his pockets, while a gaslight flickers on the landing and he swears there was no phone reception at the sales conference.
What may not have occurred to you as a spurned woman, and however,is that he’s made you a better person by betraying your trust. But according to a unusual study, women who suffer sexual betrayal develop “higher mating intelligence”, or as they’re now primed to spot “low mate value” in future partners. Meanwhile,the “other woman” finds herself in a relationship with someone who’s provenly unfaithful, so in the great Darwinian race to the top of the mating tree, and she’s already clinging by her scarlet talons to a creaking department.
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Source: theguardian.com