To his wife? Not a clue. Would it make a diff to me? Heck yeah. An affair I could forgive as something that 'just happened'. Prostitution takes effort and, most importantly, investment. I'd be CHOKED if hubby spent my kids' clothing allowance to get laid. CHOKED. Moreso than if he screwed up and fell into bed with some friend.
NY Eliot Spitzer deeply involved in Prostitution!
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To his wife? Not a clue. Would it make a diff to me? Heck yeah. An affair I could forgive as something that 'just happened'. Prostitution takes effort and, most importantly, investment. I'd be CHOKED if hubby spent my kids' clothing allowance to get laid. CHOKED. Moreso than if he screwed up and fell into bed with some friend.
Why is something illegal when you have to pay for it (prostitution), but perfectly legal when giving it for free? - George Carlin
Americans don't care about silly notions like "legal" and "illegal".... when a "law" doesn't suit the agenda of some American power lobby, hell even "torture" can be re-shaped....
The credo of America is "Make Money" and if that driving impetus happens to involve doing away with things like "morality"....the higher value is the money. One wonders why so many Americans have so much trouble with same-sex marriage..? It's been made abundantly obvious by Kennedy Clinton and many other "fine" Americans that marriage vows and moral integrity are "up for sale"...perhaps what's bothering Americans is they haven't figured out a way just yet of how to make sufficient quantities of money from the passtime to grant it the stamp of moral approval.....
The credo of America is "Make Money" and if that driving impetus happens to involve doing away with things like "morality"....the higher value is the money. One wonders why so many Americans have so much trouble with same-sex marriage..? It's been made abundantly obvious by Kennedy Clinton and many other "fine" Americans that marriage vows and moral integrity are "up for sale"...perhaps what's bothering Americans is they haven't figured out a way just yet of how to make sufficient quantities of money from the passtime to grant it the stamp of moral approval.....
American families with sons and daughters and brothers and sisters fighting yet another American war of "necessity" ought to remember that just like Viet Nam, fine upstanding civilians like Spitzer and the scum that make a mockery of law and justice made the decisions that left brothers in the field without what was needed and all in the name of this and similar people's notions of "morality" and "duty".
If you really want to fight a war on terrorism or any other kind of war, you've got to pull your collective heads out of your collective asses and realize that your children are dying because Spitzer and the like "need" expensive call-girls and wads of money to maintain their egoes on the blood of kids they lie to with every breath that leaves their lips.
If you really want to fight a war on terrorism or any other kind of war, you've got to pull your collective heads out of your collective asses and realize that your children are dying because Spitzer and the like "need" expensive call-girls and wads of money to maintain their egoes on the blood of kids they lie to with every breath that leaves their lips.
Makes me glad to hear a man say that. It kind of gives credibility to something I have come to believe while thinking about cheating and everything connected with it. There are two different types of cheating, actually. When one of the partners has one or two sexual encounters and then goes back to the family, it is obviously the sex thing - just looking for variety. But when one of the partners has a long-term relationship with one particular person, it is something more than sex, it's trying to find something s/he lacks in marriage. And sex in this case is just a way to find it, and not an end in itself.
What would you say?
Can't say anything about his wife, but it would've made a difference for me. It would be much easier to forgive, or even disregard a prostitute incident, than a real affair, involving feeling, and intimacy, and trust...
Not all wives walk away from cheaters. It takes a lot of fortitude and strength to stick around and make a marriage work through a breach of trust. It is numbing. It is exhausting. But it can be very worth the effort and work. You can make their lives ten times more miserable if you stay. ;-)
I don't think I would feel as betrayed as I would feel inadequate. If someone doesn't want me, than that is fine. They can find someone else, we are not all compatible. But wanting me plus a supplement? I would feel inadequate, unless I knew they were a lot more interested in sex than me. Of couse in the latter case I would know that I am inadequate and probably would have time to deal with those feelings before this sort of situation ever came up.
In my current relationship, I would just feel like I have been inadequate for a long time. That would be depressing.
In my current relationship, I would just feel like I have been inadequate for a long time. That would be depressing.
I think you've hit the nail on the head for how most women feel when faced with their husband's sex drives, let alone with cheating. It tends to be the biggest issue in marriages, the disparity between the two genders' appetites for sex. And both tie so much self worth up in whether or not the sex life is phenomenal.
News-break!!!
Embattled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has yielded to the intense pressure to resign over his prostitution scandal. http://tinyurl.com/yojo3g
Members of the media wait outside Gov. Eliot Spitzer's Fifth Ave. residence in New York on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. (AP Photo/David Karp)
Embattled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has yielded to the intense pressure to resign over his prostitution scandal. http://tinyurl.com/yojo3g
80,000 bucks.. 5,000 a throw.. for the most trivial, transient and shallow of gratifications.. over the period of 18 months or so. This for a guy who, although in senior positions, was a public servant, may be pulling in $125 - $150K after tax a year.. ruinous, except that his wife is some type of Wall Street lawyer.
It has the same appearances as drug addiction, that taps the energy and resources utterly of the addict, who is helpless in fighting it. Despite repeated assertions that this will be the 'last time', he will be drawn back to it like a junkie. In this case it would seem to indicate a deep spiritual void, it has little to do with the sex, it was anything but satisfying.. this for a man hailed as defender of the little guy, bane of Wall Street slimeballs. It will leave deep scars, perhaps ending, his marriage to an attractive and classy wife and will confuse and damage his daughters. His political career of course is in ruins. Even as a private Harvard educated lawyer his reputation has been irreparably damaged.
It's really an American tragedy.
It has the same appearances as drug addiction, that taps the energy and resources utterly of the addict, who is helpless in fighting it. Despite repeated assertions that this will be the 'last time', he will be drawn back to it like a junkie. In this case it would seem to indicate a deep spiritual void, it has little to do with the sex, it was anything but satisfying.. this for a man hailed as defender of the little guy, bane of Wall Street slimeballs. It will leave deep scars, perhaps ending, his marriage to an attractive and classy wife and will confuse and damage his daughters. His political career of course is in ruins. Even as a private Harvard educated lawyer his reputation has been irreparably damaged.
It's really an American tragedy.
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I think we got this all wrong. Here this guy pumps eighty grand into the local economy and he should be a poster child for the DC Chamber of Commerce. The other politicians take from the town. The standards are changing. In 1944 FDR died in the arms of his lady friend at Warm Springs, GA and was buried a hero. Ike fessed up to the affairs with his driver while in England and got elected president. Barney Frank the Senator from Massasschesetts finally acknowledged his gay friend and he were operating a gay house of ill repute out of a taxpayer paid apartent provided for him in Washington, DC and he is still in office. Then the Foley, Craig and other incidents. Foley did resign, then get a divorce and move in with his boyfriend. Craig is resisting demands he resign. There have been multitudes of othere too. What I see is a bunch from the government and private sectors whom Spitzer has prosecuted in the past all go after him with a vengenance. If I had that woman in my house he had standing on the podium with him when he made his press release I'd have been in jail for euthanasia. She needs to be put down before any more of her appear on this earth.