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There's something terribly wrong when people have the need to air their dirty laundry in public.

It is also funny when the same people also say.... it's their life, their privacy, their affairs, and no one else business.

Why do people feel the need to publicize their love affair, betrayals, divorces, and their miseries? I just don't know - perhaps they are in need of some words of comfort from people they don't even know.

Maybe someone should invite this woman to FR, so she can post a vanity thread and tell us about the dissolution of her relationship and the adultery. I bet she will get lots of replies. :-)

She has already emptied their joint bank account and burnt his clothes, but that's still not enough for her. She needed to advertise her husband's infidelity and her friend's betrayal. This is the new tarred and feathered of the 21 century, but I never care much for tarring and feathering people.... with some exceptions of course, especially if it was a public figure who did grave things.

There are things best kept private. Hire a lawyer and take him to the cleaners, but this modern tarring and feathering is too uncivilized for my taste.

I agree. The thing is that invariably with these types of stories it's easy to take the side of the spurned party, since all else being equal they seem to deserve the sympathy.

Things are seldom so straightforward. Almost every person I knew who has been cheated on in a marriage was either a neglectful or otherwise poor spouse themselves. That's not to say that they deserved being betrayed, but it is to say that they appeared to take the 'for better or worse' vow as a license to drift to the 'worst.'

In any event, i don't care for these types of antics either. Nobody is a saint, and it's entirely possible that hubby (if he could still afford it) could fill a billboard with info about his wife, too.

Seems to me neither billboard is good, nor productive.

Yes, you are right.

99.97% of the time in cases like this, best that dirty laundry not be forced upon the innocent public.

Yet, "Hooray!" for the billboard, and the publicity-- may the public lesson preserve a thousand marriages by it's being made.

And just how "innocent" is the public? It is more like public lessons like this are needed, when "Desperate Housewices" is a ratings winner.