Holly’s appearance doesn’t excuse him, but i agree with you that it might explain it. i saw a comment to some article yesterday saying Holly became a marshmallow over time and had no chance against that “hardbody.” well it’s a sad state of affairs if a man cannot control his penis and comply with his vows just because an attractive woman comes on to him, and his wife has visibly aged. Holly Petraeus is 20 years older than the whore who took up with her husband. Women really can’t compete with that kind of age spread. I agree that one should never let oneself go, but mostly out of personal pride rather than to keep a man. If he’s bent on cheating he will cheat regardless.
Simple pride in being female keeps most of us from going frumpy, and yes, I’ve been accused of believing that my gender is superior to men when it comes to impulse control...
My ex, in his mid-life crisis went off the rails over a bimbo in her early 20’s-no matter how well-kept I was, I was still 40-something, had kids and hard miles on me, etc so I know how that feels.
I’m an unforgiving sort with a latin’s love of revenge, so it cost my ex dearly, both legally and in many headgames-revenge is sweet, and I still smile, remembering his downfall. I hope Holly goes for the jugular-it is what that man deserves. But she is supposedly a lib, so I guess she’ll do a Hillary.
Nothing excuses him-he is likely one of those men who like power and when an attractive, younger woman gets close, the blood drains from their brain to the-um-nether regions. He is a cad, a rotter, and a selfish bastard, albeit a great general.
I had a psychology prof who had written a paper on men who exhibited what she called Svengali syndrome-they set themselves up-professionally or otherwise-to mentor, counsel, etc younger women, and make sex part of the deal-they get off on the adulation as much as they do the boffing-a total ego high-addictive, and it usually ends up being ruinous. Remember Nemesis? Textbook case on a small scale...