1 post tagged “affairs”

Can't help for my first post but to try and make sense of what's happening in the government now.

Seems that more and more politicians are admitting publicly that they have commited affairs while still married.  Take for example New York Governor Spitzer, who just admitted he cheated on his wife by alledgedly spending $80,000 on high-priced escort girls  Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, told his constituents that he had an affair with his chief-of-staff, and who could forget New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey's public confession that he had an affair with a gay man?

I am not judging them based on their extra-marital affairs.  But what I pity is that they needed to have their wives right beside them when they admitted tha affair. Spitzer had his wife right over his shoulders when he made the admission, Kilpatrick was holding his wife's hand in the church when he made the public confession and McGreevy had to tag along his wife when he made the announcement?  Don't they have respect for themselves and mostly, for their wives?

And based on CNN contributor Roland Martin's opinion, why did the wives let themselves be dragged to the humiliation? Is it a defense mechanism for them? A way to realize that it's actually happening? Or a role they have to play as political wives.

And most of them are still in power.  So, the one thing I can draw from these is that to save your political influence, admit your cheating ways, have your spouse all glammed up and say sorry to them in front of the world thus promoting a family value; family will always be family.

Sad, but true.