Now, I would no more recommend you have an affair than I would recommend you have cancer, and yet we know that people who have been ill often talk about how their illness has yielded them a new perspective.
Я не стану советовать измену, так же как не стану советовать заболеть раком. Известно, что люди, им переболевшие, часто говорят, как их болезнь дала им новый взгляд на вещи.