Posted on 11/12/2019 5:31:00 PM PST by Zhang Fei
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a Christian broadcaster she learned her husband was seeking a divorce in an email from his attorney.
The revelation came in an interview released Tuesday with James Dobson, founder of the Family Talk Christian ministry. He said the interview had been conducted previously.
Palin said she received an email June 19 from the attorney, almost three months before Todd Palin filed for divorce on his birthday in September.
She described the filing that came shortly after their 31st wedding anniversary as devastating. “I thought I got shot,” she said.
Palin said they’re going through counseling and their marriage isn’t “over, over.” She said attorneys are “getting rich” off them.
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This breaks my heart
you also don’t know what an asshole a man can be
“I...can’t buy this.
If your marriage is ‘going South’, it seems to me that you have some clue, long before you receive an ‘email shot’.
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You obviously haven’t been married to some real con-artists.
When I was introduced to a woman for some reason alarm bells LITERALLY went off in my head.
I’m not over imaginative or even relatively imaginative, so I totally discounted those bells.
Didn’t see my divorce coming at all.
First indication there was a problem? The night my soon-to-be-ex didn’t come home. The next day, I was asked to go the MP shack to pick up some paperwork.
Yep. The divorce paperwork.
And wouldn’t you know it, he was really smooth. Everyone thought I was the cause of the divorce...like I was the one who filed.
Boy were they in shock when just 10 freaking days after the divorce was granted they got married.
By then, only one set of friends would talk to us and that was because he told them he’d be the Best Man in their wedding. I recalled telling them when I saw them that they were being played for fools.
Sure enough, he never showed up in Colorado for the wedding. This bride was my best friend at the time.
Our friendship did survive; 42 years later and we’re still very close friends. She was so devastated when my ex offered to her fiancé to be their Best Man because she knew it meant I wouldn’t be there.
He played everyone for fools.
The interesting tidbit...? My ex cheated on the lady he married with the babysitter.
The first feeling was ‘yea!’ and then the second was pure misery for her in my heart because even though she’d cheated with him during our marriage, I didn’t want anyone to experience the shock I endured.
And she didn’t know about it till all hell broke loose, either.....
Like I said, he was real smooth.
Yeah but Todd as always struck me as a stand-up guy. He might’ve have been trying to tell her the whole time but she being who she is, might’ve been wrapped up in herself and her long dead celebrity.
Exactly right. Too many people here jumping to conclusions based on no knowledge whatsoever.
Yeah, my ex ‘got hers’, meaning justice.
I never got any satisfaction from knowing that.
The Palin haters are out in full force.
Cheering on Palin divorce .
How telling .
Yeh because nothing screams integrity like breaking up with your wife in an email. What a guy! $10 bucks he’s got a side piece.
Folk still trotting out the "hater" shtick. Old worn-out term these days. Like "racist", "homophobe"...etc...lol. Cracks me up.
Really? What does it tell you?
A friend of mine received a dozen roses for her birthday and the card from her husband inside said “I’m getting a divorce.” Took her many years to recover.
As long as he doesn’t make the same mistake twice and put a ring on it, I say good for him. You don’t know what he’s been through in 31 years of marriage.
I’m very sorry that you experienced that.
But: 31 years of marriage, several children, and then she’s suddenly blindsided and didn’t *Know* that something was not right? Was she paying attention to her marriage?
This is a woman we were considering for Vice President - and possibly President, at some point.
I know some men can be very ‘smooth’, as you say. But the lack of awareness that we’re supposed to accept from this story, in a woman of the calibre that many of us believed, is kind of scary, to me.
There’s probably a whole lot more to the story.
She never really got the chance to do it. She just kind of...stopped. She pursued the money angle, and her family spiraled out of control.
One of them may have gone over the wall.
She is saying this. Does not mean it is true. People get “funny” in divorces.
She is one hot looking lady.
What a stupid ass this jerk is.
Smart too.
Self-preservation. When it comes to these type of situations the confrontation is just not worth it. It is too easy for a woman to throw out a false accusation. If he broke up with her in person and the situation escalated , all would take would be for him to raise his voice slightly, for her to use that to get a restraining order. Seriously all the women has to do is break a fingernail while in the same room as a man and he can end up in jail.
I have known many over the years that said it was a complete surprise to them. I find it hard to believe but have been told that many times.
We had a couple that were friends of ours, married about 10 years. Very affectionate when we were around them and she always seemed really happy. One day he called to see if we knew where she was, she packed and left while he was at work.
My best friend in high school...I stayed at her house quite a lot and her parents seemed happy. Her mother had an older daughter that lived in California and she didn’t get to see her much. My friend’s dad arranged a trip to CA for her to see her daughter, even included Disneyland tickets. When she got home divorce papers were in the mail box.
Have known other seemingly happy couples that didn’t make it and one partner seemed unaware.
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