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The strongest tell-tale sign that a man has begun to “chop and clean mouth” is not suspicious phone calls or unexplained absences, but his neglect of the emotional and physical needs of the woman he has at home.

Nobody is more emotionally insensitive to their spouse than a man who has begun to have an affair. And nobody is unhappier than the wives of such men because there is a certain attitudinal recklessness on the part of these men that can make a woman question her worth.

A woman who shared her marital experiences with me recently talked about how her husband would often look away and harshly say, “Go and wear your clothes,” whenever she was horny and tried to initiate intimacy, because the husband would not even touch her on his own.

Then came the day he was in the bathroom and she could not help herself, so she took off her clothes and joined him there. She said he chased her away, came back to the bedroom, wore his clothes and left as if nothing had happened.