12 Real Confessions About Being “The Other Woman”

Someone mentioned something about a “side chick” the other day and I had a moment where I realized how much less elegant that sounded than the more traditional moniker of “the other woman.”

Then I realized how weird it was that I was thinking of terms of affairs as in any way elegant or classy. I mean, they’re just affairs. They’re not cool. They wreck people’s lives.

Nonetheless, we’re only human, and we find ourselves caught up in them all too often. Here’s a little bit of what that’s like.

12. Their baby

To be on the outside looking in.

11. To date again

Personally I don’t believe in karma. Just let yourself improve and move forward, I say.

10. Playing the part

What are you gonna do when it all comes to a head?

9. Share and share alike

This guy sounds like a real gem.

8. Stay with me

Ah yes, the beginning of a very stable and cool dynamic.

7. Dead on arrival

Oh what tangled webs we weave.

6. Home wrecker

But when you fell, what did you land on?

5. Can’t stop won’t stop

Our baser feelings override our higher thinking.

4. Kills me

What do you even do with something like that?

3. What a twist

Oh fireworks are gonna blow eventually.

2. So deserving

So is this guy just like an amazing cook then or what?

1. Doing my part

A classic justification.

I guess the moral of the story is just: don’t be the “other” person. It’s way too messy.

Have you had an experience like this?

Tell us about it in the comments.