So, to be clear, I always kinda raise my eyebrows a little when people talk about "emotional affairs". Sometimes they might be onto something, but sometimes I'm pretty sure they just don't want their partner to have friends.

And, really, what did this Other Woman do? She spoke to her friend about marital troubles that he was having that seem to have had nothing to do with her, and she went out for drinks with him a few times? I notice that LW went out of her way to confront her before her husband, who is the one at fault if anybody is.

But I'm not actually posting this letter because of that, I'm doing it because LW's perceptions are wholly out of line with reality. "I don't want to give her the pleasure of teaching my child" - yeah, no, your kid isn't that great. "She doesn't deserve it" - darn right this woman doesn't deserve to have to deal with LW!

LW certainly should have her child's class changed, because actually I think she might be unstable. Not for wanting the class changed, that's... understandable I guess, if more was going on than LW actually reports in this letter, but for everything else going on in this letter.

Probably she ought to divorce the husband. I don't have any idea if he's actually done anything wrong in this marriage, but clearly LW is not happy.