Why are men more likely than women to live secret lives?
Shortly after her father George’s death, Georgea Blakey received a phone call from a female stranger. That stranger was phoning to let her know that George had been living a double life for thirty years, with a secret second family on the other side of London - and that the caller was, in fact, her half-sister, Georgia. (The utter narcissism of the man, to name both his public and secret daughters after himself!)
An anonymous woman wrote for the Times about how, one night during the pandemic, she couldn’t sleep and noticed that her husband hadn’t paid a bill she’d asked him to settle, so she logged into their joint account to find that, unbeknownst to her, he’d arranged for a cash transfer from a credit card. Thinking this was strange, she started flicking through paperwork left lying on his desk, and then in his briefcase. She discovered that he had generated debt of £300,000, forging her signature on loan a…