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Jun 20, 2011Comments: 5 · Posts: 4737 · Topics: 103
@ Revolving,
Okay, here is the story.
When I lived in Germany, I stayed in a very small village in the farmlands. I rented an apartment from this sweet elderly woman who was my third Grandma by nature. I miss her a lot! Anyway, she was a child during WWII, and she has all kinds of stories from that era in history.
So anyway, she told me about this young woman who was married to a German Soldier. He had received orders to go East to the Russian Front, so off he went. A few months after he was gone, his wife started messing around with this other dude in their house. Guess what happened next?
The entire village (and even the surrounding area) talked about it, and they all made the decision to completely and totally ostracize her for life. No one, and I mean no one, spoke to her. Restaurants, marketplace, everyone. NO ONE had ANYTHING to do with her because they all knew what she was doing while her husband was on the battlefield.
That girl died a very lonely and miserable woman, and people told their children to never, ever cheat on their spouses no matter what.
I wish our society would totally ostracize people for intentionally destroying a marriage and family.