If you know your partner has someone waiting in the wings, it's hard to be motivated to work on your relationship, or to be enthusiastic about it.

如果你知道你的另一半有别的人在翘首以待，确实是很难让你经营这段感情或是对它抱有热情。

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Even if someone mistreats you, your life will not be hard on you.

即使别人亏待了你，你的人生不会亏待你。

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And while it can be, on one level, hard to fault someone who does have the money from spending it on a party if they so choose, these high profile events have an impact on all of us.

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