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Without getting into the morality of cheating or not (and whether it constitutes a business relationship) I think most of the people commenting on this blog, include the author missed a key point Bryan made:

"But what about human weakness? Here I take a hard line: Human weakness is a choice, and it should be criticized, not excused"

It's something I have noticed over that last forty years are ever increasing relativism and failure to hold people accountable for their failings, whether it's child rape (Michael Jackson, Roman Polanski, R. Kelly), cheating politicians, kids who suck at sports (everybody gets a trophy now, even the losers), or bankers defrauding their clients ..... I do not think the main point Bryan was trying to make was about contractual marriage law, it was that we should quit celebrating and excusing failure.

Cheating and jealously have been with us forever and it always will be .. whether it's over our neighbors spouse, house, land, car, etc etc ....... socialism / commune economics don't work (simply don't scale well) nor will it work in long term marital relationships. I think the vast majority of people enjoy the illusion of monogamy and don't like to imagine the mother of their children and the women you kiss in the morning was just sucking off some crack head in the ally last night minutes before you woke up nor (I can imagine) would my wife like to know my cock was in some random girls ass thirty minutes ago before she (my wife) blows me. I also have a difficult time with "Hey babe can you take the kids to the park, some guy is stopping by in ten minutes so I can blow him", my guess is most people would have just a big a problem as I would with this. If you don't want to live up to your marriage expectations then don't get married and if you are going to break them then do what people have been doing forever, don't make it obvious. We all know our spouses cheat on us and we accept that and pretend it doesn't happen; we simply don't like a cuckold. Spouses are all good at fooling themselves and always have been, don't be disrespectful of them by them give up the illusion.