The Secret

Lesley Barnes  |  Your Views
Date posted:  1 Aug 2016
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Dear Editor,

The thing that worried me most about The Secret (reviewed on page 25 of the June issue of en) was something said to the James Nesbitt character's wife after his adultery had been discovered. The pastor of the church said to her ‘You know it is a wife's duty to keep her husband happy’, implying that, if a man does not get sexual satisfaction from his wife, he will look elsewhere. In other words it is her fault if he strays.

I don't know if the pastor actually said this or whether it was poetic licence by the scriptwriter. Either way, it has to be said that a man cannot blame his wife for his adultery and vice versa.

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