Clandestine infidelity cannot yield free relationship because it depends on lies.

Evidence

Furtive and clandestine, adultery does not create human and free relationships; the lies it entails rob conjugal relations of what is left of their dignity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1630

Categorization

• DEFINE: Beauvoir’s existentialist criterion of relationship — freedom requires non-clandestine honesty — surfaces here as an implicit norm.