A Guide to Surviving Life as a Mistress by Heather King

A Guide to Surviving Life as a Mistress by Heather King

Are you a mistress? What are the reasons for extramarital affairs? Should you stay in the relationship? How do you survive if you leave? What is your lover's viewpoint? What about his wife, family and friends? How do you evaluate your options? What is your legal and financial position? "A Guide to Surviving Life as a Mistress" answers these questions and more, in a clear and sympathetic way. It is required reading for any woman who is in this situation - whether by design or accident - helping her to understand and evaluate her relationship and how it affects her life today and in the future. Many books have been written about infidelity but when mistresses are mentioned they are, at best, pitied, and, at worst, condemned. Contrary to popular opinion, long-standing affairs are seldom about sex alone and the complexity of such relationships is understood better from the inside than the outside. This book is written by mistresses for mistresses and explores the nature of the extramarital affair from the standpoint of the affair itself, without making any moral judgements. It does not view all mistresses as women who exchange their company and sexual favours for reward but concentrates on those who seem prepared to live their life in the shadows because of their love for a married man. To be such a mistress, and to survive the affair and the aftermath, she must be honest about her situation and that of her lover. This book takes a realistic, and often uncomfortable, look at the genuine problems such women face with genuine understanding and will give everyone who reads it a new perspective of these 'secret' women.

Heather King was born and educated in Finland. Her marriage to an Englishman took her first to Denmark, and then to England in 1985. After a sabbatical in 1988, where she studied fine arts and painting, she took an MBA at Warwick Business School and found that her marriage was over. She became a mistress, befriended others, and decided to write this book for all mistresses. She now lives in Belgium. Jordan Hayes was born in London and has a BSc in mathematics. She has been writing for pleasure since an early age. She met Heather at work and so the co-operation on this book began. In its publishing she realized one of her life's great dreams. In her spare time she draws, paints, studies aromatherapy and does constant battle with The Times crossword. She earns her living as a business consultant and her career has taken her to Europe and North America. She now lives in Surrey with an insane cat.

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ISBN 13	9780709059042
ISBN 10	0709059043
Title	A Guide to Surviving Life as a Mistress
Author	Heather King
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Publisher	The Crowood Press Ltd
Year published	1999-03-31
Number of pages	192
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