Ira Glass

Take, for instance, the married woman who, according to a romantic write-up on the Vow's page of the New York Times,

flew to Paris to see another man and stayed with him in a hotel in the Latin Quarter for two weeks where they, quote, reveled in their own the boheme before she flew back to the U.S.

and moved out of the home in New Jersey that she shared with her husband.

See, but that's what's so strange about it is that somehow some part of them doesn't think, I shouldn't talk about this.

Like somehow the notion I had an affair is so just nothing to them.

Yeah.

as are the cheated-on ex-partner.

When the story appears in the newspaper on the wedding pages, it's almost as if the newspaper is siding with the cheating couple.

The ex-partner is just collateral damage on the weight of their wedding.

Well, that's the thing.

If it were any other section of the newspaper, the reporter would go to them, too, for a comment.

I think they should do that.

But because it's the wedding section, it's just like, well, it's not really their story.

Well, today on our radio program, we go where the newspaper marriage columns fear to tread.

We hear from all parties to the affair, the cheated on as well as the cheaters and their differing takes on what happened.

And no surprise, they are very different from one another's.

From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.

I'm Ira Glass.

Today on our show, infidelity.

Stay with us.