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When a person has been cheated on, it can create pernicious feelings of inadequacy, as they start to worry whether they weren’t good enough for their partner, and specifically, whether they aren’t as good as the other party in the affair. Melanie, however, had no such worries.
She made it clear in her letter to Jennifer that she did not think that she would be as good a partner as Melanie was – lacking the experience and bond that Melanie and her husband had shared.