Affair in sentence

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And even though the color was pretty hideous, I did love the car, and it really cemented my love affair with cars that's continued on to this day.

She had heard him at the Library of Congress a few weeks before at this extravagant black-tie affair.

Africa has had a mixed affair with organized religion, with both positive and negative consequences.

Opened a shop, turned it into a family affair.

But I want to tell you the story of PISA, OECD's test to measure the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds around the world, and it's really a story of how international comparisons have globalized the field of education that we usually treat as an affair of domestic policy.

Lasting anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, funeral ceremonies are a raucous affair, where commemorating someone who's died is not so much a private sadness but more of a publicly shared transition.

I was involved in a heavy love affair with the music of Duran Duran, as you can probably tell from my outfit.

So, it's Tony Blair reading and practicing his speech; I've got them doing yoga inside there with Carole Caplin; Sven making out with Ulrika Jonsson, who he was having an affair with at that time.

And is an affair always the end of a relationship?

There is one simple act of transgression that can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness and their very identity: an affair.

So 95 percent of us will say that it is terribly wrong for our partner to lie about having an affair, but just about the same amount of us will say that that's exactly what we would do if we were having one.

The vivid details of Nick's two-year affair unfold in front of her in real time, And it made me think: Affairs in the digital age are death by a thousand cuts.

At the heart of an affair, you will often find a longing and a yearning for an emotional connection, for novelty, for freedom, for autonomy, for sexual intensity, a wish to recapture lost parts of ourselves or an attempt to bring back vitality in the face of loss and tragedy.

But at 47, Priya's affair is about the adolescence that she never had.

Death and mortality often live in the shadow of an affair, because they raise these questions.

And the very structure of an affair, the fact that you can never have your lover, keeps you wanting.

So how do we heal from an affair?

But now that the affair is exposed, they, too, get to claim more, and they no longer have to uphold the status quo that may not have been working for them that well, either.

I've noticed that a lot of couples, in the immediate aftermath of an affair, because of this new disorder that may actually lead to a new order, will have depths of conversations with honesty and openness that they haven't had in decades.

So when an affair is exposed, what are some of the specific things that couples can do?

So for the partner who had the affair, for Nick, one thing is to end the affair, but the other is the essential, important act of expressing guilt and remorse for hurting his wife.

But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner, but they don't feel guilty for the experience of the affair itself.

It's his responsibility to bring it up, because if he thinks about it, he can relieve Heather from the obsession, and from having to make sure that the affair isn't forgotten, and that in itself begins to restore trust.

Every affair will redefine a relationship, and every couple will determine what the legacy of the affair will be.

In other words, the victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage.

But because I think that good can come out of an affair, I have often been asked this very strange question: Would I ever recommend it?

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.

And so when a couple comes to me in the aftermath of an affair that has been revealed, I will often tell them this: Today in the West, most of us are going to have two or three relationships or marriages, and some of us are going to do it with the same person.

And so for us, the prospect of mind clones and regenerated bodies is that our love affair, Chris, can go on forever.

For example, once I had an affair with calculus that lasted longer than some celebrity marriages.

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