Oh Johnny Boy...

[stickykeys633]

An Open Letter to John Edwards from Ms. StickyKeys
Ramblings from a broken heart

Dearest John,

Way to break my heart John Edwards! I mean, COME ON! Look, I know you're pretty, and you have "needs" [/eyeroll of INTENSE sarcasm], but you know when you absolutely don't cheat on your wife? WHEN SHE'S BELOVED BY THE COUNTRY AND DEALING WITH CANCER

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[thegirliscrazy]

In a lot of ways I'd imagine that a steady affair with one woman would be more hurtful than a one night stand or even a string of one night stands. Basically the man just signed himself up for another commitment, and (polygamy/swingers notwithstanding) that would offend and crush my senses. Like what was I lacking so much that you couldn't even come to me about it, rather you had to go out and find another woman to provide it for you? It's supposed to be my job to keep my husband happy (and vice versa), now I feel like I've failed as a wife and I'm racking my brain trying to figure out where I went wrong or what I could have done differently. I.e, he's the one in the wrong but the blame somehow still ends up on me for not "doing my job" in the first place, and as if the internalized blame isn't enough you know there are other people out there who think like this, judging a relationship they really know nothing about. Unfair, but true.

But if it's a man who just can't stop running around without any particular discretion, I feel like he has a problem that has nothing to do with whomever he married. That doesn't excuse it at all but I think, he's a sex addict or has some sort of insecurity or 'conquest' issues that you can't pin down on his wife. Someone like that at the most needs serious therapy, and at the least should have just been man enough to acknowledge to himself that he cannot or will not ever be faithful, therefore he will not suck some poor woman into a marriage knowing that he won't truly commit.

I've clearly given the general subject of affairs way too much thought previously.