Online Second Wives

They have blemishes too, like in-house, marriage certificate wives.

Online second wives also have a stressful day at work; school reports about misbehaving kids; car accidents at intersections and bad hair days. Men don’t see the blemishes because they are always well-groomed and make-up is so meticulous it looks natural. They look good on the cellphone screen. They don’t have parched cracked lips like in-house, marriage certificate wives. No, they don’t because they dedicate an hour to transforming themselves into the ‘ideal’ men want, with the right lip gloss and hair dye.

Online second wives don’t ‘nag’ about money like in-house, marriage certificate wives because of their modus operandi (m.o.) They think aloud. About their mother’s intended surgery. About their sister’s wedding. About new clothes for the summer. About a holiday in a country where snow is a foreign object. Voila! Men catch the wish and turn it into reality. The cellphone goes ping. Money is deposited into the online second wife’s account.

In-house, marriage certificate wives don’t ‘nag’ about money as such. They just don’t understand how they must remind men countless times about basic expenditure. They do it with a heavy heart because of men’s reaction. They flare up. “Do you think I’m the Reserve Bank?” In-house marriage certificate wives also have a problem with in-laws. Sometimes they think financial support they received before sons got married, dried up at wives’ instigation.

Online second wives are not the same. Some want to destroy a man’s marriage if he is an NFL star, NBA star or rich musician. Others don’t. They are just using him for the dollars, and will delete him as soon as he says, “I’m thinking of getting a divorce.”

Meanwhile, in-house marriage certificate wives become suspicious. They suspect their friends, neighbours, colleagues and the female courier, of messing with their husbands. It never occurs to them that it is the online second wife, they don’t know anything about.

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