Question Does the wife of an adulterous man have grounds to be angry with "the other woman?"

Accepted:
October 19, 2010

Comments

Yes, at least assuming that the "other woman" knows, or should know, that the man is married. The wife has grounds, in the sense of appropriate reason, to be angry because anger is an appropriate emotional response to having an important relationship messed up (not to mention other things, such as parenting help, financial help, etc.), and appropriate targets of that anger include persons who knowingly did things to mess up that relationship (hence the wife also has at least as much grounds to be angry at her husband). I am assuming here that it is sometimes appropriate to feel anger, an assumption that might be questioned by some (e.g., Buddhists?). Whether the wife has grounds, in the sense of moral justification, to be angry at the other woman is a more complicated question, since it is not clear what it means to be morally justified to feel an emotion towards someone (and also because the facts of the case might make such justification unclear).

Question Does the wife of an adulterous man have grounds to be angry with "the other woman?" Accepted:October 19, 2010

Question Does the wife of an adulterous man have grounds to be angry with "the other woman?"

Accepted:
October 19, 2010