I agree with you...I have sympathy for her obvious pain and anguish even if she was known to be something of a harridan.
Whatever she learned that day must have pushed her over the edge...hard stuff.
I do not condone cheating..have been faithful to one woman for many years now which is about character more than easy habit for guys like me...best to wait to get married and get over all that...so you aren't always left wondering
But when I grew up in the South...men of means as a rule cheated with willing women...the women might be lower class or bored country club wives
But folks were more discreet...no pregnancies...nothing public and even if the wife found out or suspected there was always effort to try to keep from shaming her (or him for that matter too)
more decorum about it....
now even though i think GenX and Y white men cheat much less ...when they do there is no discretion as much...it's clumsy like tabloid TMZ stuff
hard to explain but things are far different now
of all my married pals I know only two men who cheat and one woman..and her’s is an open marriage
yet in my dad's day in Mississippi....I'd wager around half of business owning and professional class men cheated...I would actually meet folks who would tell me my dad was one of the few men they knew who did not...course he had married Miss Mississippi....men cheat on pretty women too though and often with less pretty lovers
maybe I am just insulated out here in past suburban Nashville ...
You’ve grown into being a wonderful man, husband and father...one I am proud to know.
“now even though i think GenX and Y white men cheat much less ...when they do there is no discretion as much...it’s clumsy like tabloid TMZ stuff
hard to explain but things are far different now”
Technology.
It was much easier to cheat before this ever advancing technology. lol
“I would actually meet folks who would tell me my dad was one of the few men they knew who did not...course he had married Miss Mississippi....men cheat on pretty women too though and often with less pretty lovers”
Your dad was a good man, and a good role model. His parents dun brung him up right...and so did yours.
“maybe I am just insulated out here in past suburban Nashville ...”
Maybe you are, simply speaking, a happy man.