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Men.<\/p>\n

Hmmm, they can be a bit of a quandary to some of us women. As romance readers, we love the reformed rake or the playboy who eventually finds his ‘mate’ and settles down into blissful monogamy.<\/p>\n

This is the man who could have almost any woman he wants but he chooses the heroine and that’s pretty much it for him. Put a fork in him he’s done. Of course he’s fantastic looking, confident, wealthy and is pure genius between the sheets. In reality, the man I just described is pure fantasy–on the most part. I’m sure some women will protest they have such a man at home.<\/p>\n

I really started thinking about men and their cheatin’ ways when the story broke about Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong><\/em> and the child he fathered with the family maid<\/strong><\/em>! Really no great surprise but it got me thinking about the parade of high profile women over the years that have ‘stood’ by their men after they’d been caught<\/strong><\/em>–notice I didn’t say confessed–cheating. On the whole, women don’t take kindly to cheating men and women who read romances seem to tolerate them even less so. Oh, the hero can butt up against that line, but he better not cross it.<\/p>\n

This got me thinking, and in a discussion with my friend, Jackie Barbosa<\/strong><\/a>, we concluded that because romance readers are–dare I say–romantic in nature, demanding absolute fidelity from their heroes, in reality, these women would be far less likely to take back a cheating mate.<\/p>\n

So ladies what do you think, would you take back a man who has cheated on you? Have you ever read a book with a cheating hero? Comment to enter to win a book that has a premise that hits very, very close to home. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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