Really, really, don't get married--take it from a woman

I spoke of Esther Perel's book, The State of Affairs, last year, but I was looking at it again after recommending it to a friend. Somehow I missed this the first time through:

Danica is hardly the first woman who shuts down at home and wakes up outside. Hers is archetypal tale of the muting of eros. I see women like her all the time—usually dragged into therapy by their frustrated husbands who are tired of being rejected, night after night. The typical complaint is: she is totally absorbed with the kids and has zero interest in sex. But it's these very same women, I've found, who "come alive" in a completely unexpected romance.

Many men struggle to understand how the woman who can't be bothered in the marital bed is suddenly having a torrid affair in which she just can't get enough. For years, they've been thinking she's just not interested in sex, period; now, with new evidence in hand, they reconsider—"she must not be interested in sex with me."

For men, the reasons women behave this way is less important than the takeaway: don't marry. Don't cohabitate. Have an exit plan if you do anyway.

Seriously. Why would you want to be married to a Danica? I know you don't believe your precious snowflake will turn into a sexless harpy (around you), while wantonly screwing other dudes, but reality doesn't care about what you believe.

To a player, this book's major lesson is, "Hitting on married women is a fine idea." Hit her up at the right time and see what happens.

You can be the guy she cheats ON or WITH.

Choose.