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I have seen too many people leave their M's for someone who is less attractive AND less successful.

I have heard this expressed as 'affairing down', which is true with my W. The term implies that most of the people who choose to have an affair tend to do so with someone less good looking and/or of a lower socio-economic status.

Me: 48
Ex-W: 45
M: Nov '96, together since Oct 93
Bomb: on 10-yr anni - Nov '06
OM
Separated: mid-Feb '07
Divorced mid-July '08
One daughter - 28
XW living w/OM