The Other Woman: Advice From A Mistress   A former mistress
offers hard-learned advice to new wives.  The following is an
excerpt from Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress, by
Michael Drury.  I am more like you than you might suppose. A
mistress shares a secret with a newly wedded wife: that love is
a kind of glorious grief, equidistant from happiness and tears.
Read: Newlywed Cheating And The Uncertainty Principle  I am apt
to be more like you than your mother, who long ago determined
the shape all love must take, and has forgotten that each day's
choices, even now, have anything to do with it. Nor is she
wholly wrong. Love lived from day to day takes on a momentum of
its own, but that is not the all of it. If a mistress knows more
of romance and a wife more of practicalities, is there not some
wholeness implied here worthwhile to explore? Read: Why "Wife"
Is A Dirty Word  It is not my intention to set wives against
mistresses any more than is inherent in their situation, or to
try to prove one better