The summer wives

Every year when the weather gets hot and the kids are done school for the year there is a mass exodus of women and children from the Sultanate. These women return home to the more reasonable temperatures of their home countries to shop and feel normal for a couple months while their husbands stay behind and sweat it out.

And while the cats away the mice will play so they say....

It would seem that some, a few, a lot, who knows how many of the men who get left behind by their wives shack up with a "summer wife".

Summer wives tend to be filipino, perhaps because they are generally less demanding, nag less, are more laid back and more willing to have more adventurous sex then well...winter wives. That's what I hear anyway.

One thing I don't know how works is the whole arrangement. Are these women prostitues who get paid, or do they hang around for the perks? Weekend trips to other countries, shopping and just being "kept" for a little while, all sounds good to me to be honest.

And who are these men you might be asking, well they're the same guys you work with, or collegues of your husband or friends. These are the same guys you see out and about with their wives and kids at Al Fair on weekends picking up chicken on a stick and buns for a beach bbq at Seifa. They are the same guys who take their wives to dinner at Left Bank or O Sole Mio on "date night". They are the men who are bored and left behind.

And who are the women? I have no idea who these ladies are to be honest. I assume it's ones who work in shops and restaurants because I think they have more freedom then live-in housemaids.

But you have to marvel at the tenacity of these men who move another woman into their homes for a little fun, and also what the conversation at the end of summer sounds like.

And what if the summer wife becomes unhinged at the end of summer and doesn't want to give up her position? Does the man have to move house when his wife and kids come back?

Do the neighbours see all this going on and say nothing? Maybe here it's a bit different when it comes to the neighbours...I mean afterall how many of us actually socialize with the people next door or down the hall? Maybe people see and just assume it's the housemaid, or just mind their own business.

So ladies, as summer approaches will you be taking the kids and leaving? Will you be wondering what your husband is really up to when you're away? Do you trust him?

And men who take "summer wives" it's one thing to shag around, it's quite another to do so unprotected. If you respect your wife, your real wife, at all, keep her safe.