“I understand it now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it’s simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated. When the deception is open, as in a free marriage, then it does not exist, it’s unthinkable. Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband. Damn it all! I sometimes dream if I were to be married, phoo! I mean if I were to marry, legally or not, it’s just the same, I should present my wife with a lover if she had not found one herself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”.
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