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In Sunday's Times of London, there was a feature on Britain's Marriage Guidance Council (MGC), now known as "Relate." The nonprofit MGC was founded in 1938 in order to help mend Britain's ailing marriages. The Times publishes some of MGC's case files from the '40s, and one caught my eye in particular. It is case No. 67, which tells the story of a 26-year-old artist and his wife. The wife has an illegitimate child who was fathered by a border — a naval officer — whom the family lodged. According to the caseworker, "The husband does not in the least resent what has happened, likes the other man and is very attached to his wife." The husband is not resentful, the caseworker reasons, because the husband suffers from an unspecified "sexual perversion" that stopped him from doing it with his wife. More »
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