In this article I write about marriage and infidelity in modern life and the books we read in class. Marriage is a mutual bond in which a man and a woman decide to stay together until death. Infidelity is basically when the man or woman in a relationship cheats on the other person, without them knowing. Homer's Odyssey is a great example of faithfulness and unfaithfulness. The odyssey is a coda of love, courage and hope. It focuses on "a man full of twists and turns". Odysseus is a man who is lost at sea because of Poseidon, the god of the sea, who tries to return to his wife and son in Ithaca. But he had to go through so many problems to get there. In real life we don't really hear the gods talking to us in the ocean telling us that we've made them angry. We have husbands/wives, boyfriends/girlfriends, who tell us that we have made them nervous or that we have simply done something completely wrong! Relationships now and days are not the same as they used to be. Before, when people liked someone, it was for their personality. Now we only look at people for the way they look, dress, talk and what they have. Things have changed a lot over the years, from good to worse. Now, if you talk to a random person on the street and ask them “Have you been married and divorced before?” and many of them would say "yes". I asked this lady "How long have you been married?" he said "11 years". So I asked her why she got divorced, she told me it was because her husband had cheated on her with a twenty-six year old. She had started to wonder a few months before discovering "the other woman", why didn't he show her the same affection he had shown her for many years in the past? She'd ask him how he was and how his day was at work and instead of having an in-depth conversation he'd just say "everything was okay" or "nothing serious happened, just the same, still the same." They tried counseling because one of their friends recommended it. They tried but he still acted the same way. He got to a point where he thought he was doing something wrong.
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