Dancing. Emotional Adultery

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2007)

I am bit late to the dance, so to speak. I just recently watched this "romantic comedy". The movie attempts to dance around the underlying emotional adultery at the heart of this story. A middle aged, successful lawyer is hot for a sexy looking, much younger, dance instructor.
Doh! Who would have thought such things happen? She turns him down, but only rather reluctantly. Our "hero" belatedly turns to his wife and marriage.
Yeah sure...
It is an all too common theme of romantic comedies--chick flicks--that adultery, whether emotional or physical is just what a marriage needs.
How often has anyone ever seen this happen in the real world? Most women, and some men, admit that emotional adultery is far, far more difficult to forget and/or forgive.
In the real world, again unlike the world of chick flicks, adultery most often leads to worse not better marriages, to divorce not living happily ever after. Seeking your "bliss" in the arms of someone other than your spouse may be sexy, may be romantic, may be a hell of a lot of fun, but it will not, or seldom does, rejuvenate a marriage gone stale. It is almost always the signal that the marriage is dead, dead, dead.
But not so in the fairy tales called chick flicks or romantic comedies.
Just an aside: I have seen so many chick flicks in which it is the wife, not the hubbie looking for a little on the side and she usually gets it--gets it all. I wonder why in chick flicks the male with the wandering eyed doesn't go all the way with the object of his desire? Would it have anything to do with the fact that audiences for chick flicks are--surprise--chicks? Nah...
Anyway, if you have bought into the premise that adultery, either emotional or physical, is the way to brighten up a marriage go see this movie.
If you have a hard time buying this cliché of Hollywood do something more constructive with your money and time--like perhaps, spending a romantic evening, dancing or otherwise with your spouse and not the hunk or skirt down the street.