girldetective

We've all heard occasionally of one partner in a committed relationship taking a companion (euphemism for long-term committed lover) that they keep separate from their marriage. The key words re the lover are long-term and committed. Think Jackie Onassis and Maurice Templeton or Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, or whoever else. You know what I mean. At least the two lovers know that there is another committed relationship, and sometimes the third person knows about the others. It sounds complicated.

Anyway, if the new lover knows that the other is married/committed to another, what responsibility do they play in that marriage/commitment of their partner in the other relationship? And if the new lover keeps this relationship simple and asks no questions about that other relationship, none whatsoever, but just knows that there is a commitment on their partner's part to another, does the lover even have an effect on that first relationship?

In other words, what responsibility does a lover of a married partner play in anything other than relationship with the lover? The lover has no relationship with the other's partner.

For the record, this is not a true scenario in my life in any sense; just a question posed.