When you’re dating they say it’s important to have options, but what about when you’re married? While you might think most women who’ve taken a vow to love, honor, and cherish forever would gawk at the idea of keeping another man around, a new study claims 5 out of 10 women have a backup husband. Yes, a backup husband.
The going definition for a backup husband is a man who, at some point, has expressed his undying love to a woman but in her eyes he was just her second option when it came to choosing who to marry. The Daily Mail says “the back-up is likely to be an old friend who has always had feelings for the woman in question. But other candidates are an ex-boyfriend or ex-husband, a colleague – or someone who they have met at the gym.” In other words, these are men who women keep around because they boost their ego when their husbands are slipping in the attention department.
Interestingly enough, the women who participated in the study confessed their husbands are aware of Mr. Plan B. The marketing research company OnePoll.com which conducted this study, concluded their research by forewarning men backup husbands are a sign your marriages may not be in good standing. You think? OnePoll said by releasing this information, i.e. snitching on the ladies in the study, men may reconsider how much quality time they spend with their wives rather than their friends, hence eliminating the need for their wives to have backup husbands to begin with.
Although I’ve heard of this concept of a backup spouse before from family members of both genders, I don’t believe spouses should have other eggs in their baskets if they’re married. Where’s the accountability to the union you entered into with your actual spouse, not to mention the lack of commitment? Backup husbands sound like nothing more than a slippery slope into infidelity.But hey, maybe that just me. Do you think you’ll be one to call Tyrone when your husband acts up?
