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What is it about men who will risk their sweethearts, their families, their careers, and their livelihood for a quick roll in the hay?
Then, they will lie through their teeth trying to deny it--not only at the time but for years afterward. Many will also grasp at any excuse to shift the blame to their partners for their infidelity. I can tell you from personal experience that Ms. Edwards was physically not in any shape to be a sexual partner during her ordeal nor for months afterward. What a pitiful reason to cheat.
I have a special empathy for Elizabeth Edwards because she and I have walked the same road; I too have had to suffer public humiliation because of the same thing--though not on the scale of hers. However, the pain is just as intense when one discovers a person she loves has cheated on her and done it with a cheap whore at that--and that the people in her world knew it long before she did.(I don't think we can classify this woman as anything else, given the fact that she was sleeping with Edward's staff members at the same time--if we are to believe that he is not the father of her child. Time will tell. )
Ms. Edwards doesn't care what the world thinks--but the knowledge that her children, her family, and her close friends now know will be the catalyst that could destroy her emotionally. No person battling cancer should have to endure this kind of stress. Cancer feeds off stress and emotional upheaval.
I also have walked the road of breast cancer--I know the hell of chemotherapy just as she does and just as her husband should have if he was with her at the time. She also had to endure radiation; I did not have to go there. I was the lucky one; she was the unlucky one--her cancer returned. When breast cancer returns, there is no cure. One is immediately classified Stage 4, or terminal. The last thing she needed was a cheating husband. His lame excuse that her cancer was in remission at the time sickens me.
Edwards says he became "narcissistic and self-centered" over the course of several campaigns. Why are we now to believe he is any different? Supposedly, he told his wife in 2006 of his affair; yet he chose to launch another political campaign knowing his wife was dying--putting her and his children in front of the public as the epitome of the quintessential "loving and caring American family".
Shouldn't he have been spending every possible moment with her and his family, assuring them he would be there with them--no matter what?
And what of Ms. Edwards? I have read several comments saying she should dump the cad. Consider her dilemma. She has two small children and an older daughter who will need their father when she is gone. What choice does she have? She has to put their welfare ahead of hers.
Damn you, John Edwards! What you have done to this woman will hasten her death, taking away from her precious time with her children.
