- Women Who Regret Not Having Cheated.
- Women’s Testimonies.
- A Sense of Guilty Feelings Linked to Desiring Other People.
- Reflections on Having Natural Attractions Even in a Relationship.
- An Open Discussion About Boundaries, Fidelity, and Personal Desires.
Recently, on the show Les filles du lunch, broadcast on the airwaves of Rythme FM, Maripier Morin and Isabelle Racicot turned their attention to a taboo topic surrounding infidelity: women who say they regret never having cheated.
I think you’re really beautiful, and it would be a lot of fun to be intimate with you
During this exchange, the women asked themselves several questions about the subject, notably whether it’s healthy to suppress one’s desires. They also shared various anecdotes and a few more personal confidences.
Isabelle reported that some women say they have suffered from the constant suppression of their attractions, to the point that it would have impacted their well-being and mental health. Others reportedly admitted having long carried a strong sense of guilt tied to the desire felt toward someone else.
A Female Experience?
Maripier then pointed out that, in her view, this reality is often closely tied to the female experience. Not wanting to lump everyone into the same category, she believes that men sometimes have a greater ability to dissociate body and mind.
«(…) You know, it’s rare for the animal side to be so openly expressed in women… There you stare at me with wide eyes, because you’ve lived something else, right? Do you want to share your personal experience with us?» says Isabelle with a teasing tone, encouraging her colleague to open up.
«You’re kidding around. I shouldn’t have talked to you about this…»
Feeling Attraction for Others… Even in a Relationship?
Later, the hosts wondered whether it’s unhealthy to be happily coupled and still feel attracted to someone else without necessarily acting on it.
«I think it’s honest… You know, I’m looking at you now; I’m not saying I’m lesbian, but… I think you’re really beautiful, I’d find it fun to be intimate with you, but I’m not going to do it… I can see you; I think you have a really nice body… It would work…», Maripier illustrates, provoking fits of laughter from everyone.
«(…) The same goes for a man, you know, I could have said the same thing to Seb Benoit: You’re a handsome guy, all that, but I’m not going there… to be able to have eyes to see… we’d be crazy to say that it doesn’t exist», Morin adds.
Maripier and Isabelle Open Up
Isabelle confided that when she was younger and out at bars, she sometimes felt such a powerful attraction to someone that her body sent immense signals. It was so intense that she could sense the person approaching the bar even when her back was turned. She ultimately revealed that something did indeed happen between them, while noting that she wasn’t in a relationship at the time.
«I’ve dated a guy, me too, in my early twenties, and it was what you described—epidermic, then we never ended up dating, and later when I ran into him again, I’m telling you, it’s like… It’s exactly what you described: I shouldn’t be close to him, it’s as if my body wants to make decisions my head doesn’t want to make, I know it screams danger in my head… He’s not even good-looking, on top of it… Then, at some point, I run into him at an event, I’m in a relationship, he’s in a relationship… and he talks to me, okay… I take a step back, he takes a step forward… there I was like: I really think I need to go, I really need to leave, because staying felt like I could lose control… I could see that staying could be dangerous…», Morin recounts, then adding that with Jean-Philippe Perras there was no danger and that it no longer existed, but that at the time, she could still sense the potential danger.
Is Maripier One of the Women Who Regret It?
Isabelle stated that she was nonetheless glad to have experienced it, noting that some people will never know such intensity.
«If you’re not in a relationship, that’s ideal, because when you’re in a relationship and you experience that, it’s no longer fun», she notes, however.
«But at the same time, is it really that boring… You know, back then, I do regret not having done it a bit, if I’m being 100% honest… Yes, because, after that, the person I was with, we weren’t together anymore, so I tell myself: What’s the point?» admits Maripier.
«You’re one of those women who regret not having been unfaithful,» Racicot asks.
«I think so,» concludes Maripier.
And you, are you among the women who regret not having been unfaithful?
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