Few of us approve of marital indiscretions. Personally, however, I hesitate to toss too many stones. Knowing what occurs in the confines of a marriage is difficult, if not impossible, to know. Some marriages are marriages of convenience, be it due to sexual orientation, power, money, parenting - or an array of other issues. Sometimes the other spouse is well aware of what is happening - and actually condones it. Many of us also know of marriages where, should we be in shoes of a long suffering partner, we, too, might well be tempted to stray. In any case - it is never easy to judge from the outside looking in.
Of course, all that being said, when high profile celebrities or politicians have affairs, all bets are off. And when the “wronged” spouse is a woman battling cancer as she treks around the nation supporting her running-for-President husband, sympathy for the philanderer is in shorter supply than center court tickets for Wimbledon finals.
You might wonder: what could be worse? Well, I shall tell you. Read this article about the woman with whom John Edwards risked all as he attempted to earn the candidacy for the most powerful position in the world.
I struck up a conversation with the woman at the next event, as we waited outside. She told me her name and asked me what my astrological sign was, which I thought was a little unusual. I told her. She smiled, and began telling me her life story: how she was working as a documentary-film maker, living with a friend in South Orange, N.J., but how she’d previously had “many lives.” She’d worked, she said, as an actress and as a spiritual adviser. She was fiercely devoted to astrology and New Age spirituality. She’d been a New York party girl, she’d been married and divorced, she’d been a seeker and a teacher and was a firm believer in the power of truth.
She told me that she had met Edwards at a bar, at the Regency Hotel in New York. She thought he was giving off a special “energy.”
Ugh. It’s enough to make me lose my cookies. Can you imagine that a man who would be attracted to an airhead like this almost was the Democrat candidate for President? While I realize that we choose different people with whom to fall in love than we do to be our Secretary of State or our bridge partner - still.
Our nation dodged a bullet. No matter who gets elected come November, we will have a President infinitely superior to the man who gave off “a special ‘energy’”.
