Accounting for Attractions, Relationships, Partings

       A much anticipated TV series called "The Affair" begins tomorrow night on Showtime.  Apparently it's about two married couples who don't know one another, but one member of each couple has an affair with the other.

       A psychologist was hired as consultant to the series, and a co-writer paraphrased a principal lesson the psychologist provided the show's writing team:  "[I]nfidelity is a lot more about who you are than about the person you're with."

       For some reason, this prompted me to conjure a formulation imperfectly connected and in another situation:  "If you're single, having a relationship is an infidelity to who you are as an individual."