What if you're wrong? What if, just this once, life comes down on the side of the dirty mistresses? - Grey's Anatomy

The dirty mistress. She's the woman most others are afraid of. She can instill doubt and second guessing with a mere sly smile in the right direction. Most times, it isn't her that even makes the first move. She simply responds to the signs being thrown her way. She doesn't go looking to steal another woman's man, but she doesn't decline the interest if she feels it too. She gets a bad wrap most days. I'm sure most women would choose other nasty words for her...whore...slut...homewrecker. Funny, those same women don't seem to use those words for their significant other.

So, the dirty mistress takes all the blame. She is portrayed as the little pathetic lovesick puppy who is pining after a man who is already spoken for. Except she ain't always the one doing the chasing. The dirty mistress sleeps alone more often than not, contrary to popular belief. She is a lady in waiting...but it is her choosing which isn't nearly as pathetic as one would have you believe. She gets to have her cake & eat it too. Who can ever understand what it's like to be the woman who sets a man free, but be the woman he can't handle in full? I suppose it's easier to be with someone who is accommodating. Is it easier for a man to be with a woman who isn't smart enough to see he isn't hers one hundred percent? I suppose it is. The dirty mistress knows all there is to know and still feels compelled to the man anyway. He would have trouble getting anything past her because she knows how he works. Is that why she can't take the main stage? She knows all his tricks. Sadly enough, he doesn't know all hers. She gives just enough to play her part, but never gives it all because she's too smart to be that vulnerable. She would never let her guard down when he isn't free from his ties.

The dirty mistress may or may not have a secret hope to one day call that man her own. But he'll never know for sure. Because once he knows, the interest of having a dirty mistress disappears. She becomes left behind and just some fun he had when he got bored with his current flame. Dirty mistresses never get the guy, but then again who would want these cheating bastards anyway? That is what all dirty mistresses realize soon enough and have the sense to walk away. So, ladies don't give the evil eye to the dirty mistress without also turning that gaze on your boyfriend. It takes two to tango and your man knows how to dance just as well as we do.