{"id":429964,"date":"2026-05-03T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:15:08","slug":"dear-mary-my-friend-wont-leave-her-cheating-husband-and-her-fake-life-is-giving-me-the-ick-which-makes-me-not-want-to-hang-out-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429964\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My friend won\u2019t leave her cheating husband and\u00a0her fake life is giving me the ick, which makes me not want to hang out with her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'We should feel able to call friends out without fear of reprisal when they are doing something that we feel is wrong, or that we do not agree with.' Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d2df5c0f-b2a3-4094-846e-bc5dda50066c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;We should feel able to call friends out without fear of reprisal when they are doing something that we feel is wrong, or that we do not agree with.&#8217; Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: A close friend discovered her fianc\u00e9 was cheating on her and was devastated. She admitted to me she got pregnant on purpose to tie him down and they later married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She had always been straight talking about the kind of man she wanted to marry, and he ticked all the boxes \u2013 well educated, with money and very ambitious. He seemed a really cool and nice guy too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We should feel able to call friends out without fear of reprisal when they are doing something that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,35746],"class_list":["post-429964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-mary-oconor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}