International audienceThe gender of heartaches : feminine suffering and its resistances amongst the mistresses of married menThis paper draws from our research carried out on long-term extra-marital affairs. The discourse analysis of married men’s mistresses (whether or not they themselves are married) reveals a gendered social system structured by feminine expectations of men and love. This system reveals both a split between positive and negative feminine figures while the context of clandestine love scenarios generates specific moral suffering for amongst the women.Cet article est issu d’une recherche portant sur les relations ex- traconjugales durables. Il propose une analyse des discours de maîtresses d’hommes mariés (qu’elles soien...