I think it is far more complex.
I think the political class are now being exposed as having medival style political weddings. The clintons are married but have their respective girlfriends in order to keep power. Mcgreevy, and Spitzer seem to be in the same path.
a challenge? are we talking about video games or a wife? Do not forget how many older women were complaining about viagra because their husbands wanted sex from their wives. (oh the horror)
My husband was just saying the same thing yesterday... I was remarking at how the women standing by these men at these press conferences were being humiliated. My husband said, “It’s not like what you think”. He too, thinks that most of these marriages are for political reasons - that the spouses are also getting a high off the power/money, etc... And, that’s why they stay and put up with this type of behavior. If they weren’t getting something out of it, they wouldn’t stay...