While wife's away, hubby plays, but now he wants to salvage the marriage

DEAR ELLIE: Let me start by saying I love my wife more than lifeitself. But she's the all-American woman: independent and bossy. Shehad to go away for a year on official business to a foreign countrywhich is off-limits to tourists. We communicated only through e-mails, chat rooms and unclear phone calls, and we argued on all threeforms.

While this was going on, I met a woman from a third-world countryvia the Internet. We communicated frequently and this "computer love"soon resulted in a real-life meeting. She was the complete oppositeof my wife: dependent and docile, and she aims to please. I feltsomething in me that made me want to save her from this horriblecountry, …