I’m not yet convinced she is pregnant. But if she is pregnant that would indicated there has been intimacy. She is of an age where this baby could be her last chance at motherhood. If that’s why she married him she doesn’t need him anymore. We only have Weiner saying they have no plans to separate. Given his capacity for denial I’ve got to wonder if she has really agreed to stand by him.
It’s a political marriage. The only “standing by” there is calculated for advantage. If he becomes to big a liability, then the calculus shifts to the point that the negative of a divorce is overridden by the negative of staying. It has nothing to do with any emotional commitment between the two. That’s why the guy was online exposing himself, that’s why she’s yet to object, and that’s why a pregnancy was suddenly announced in the middle of all this. For effect. It’s a dog and pony show. Stagecraft. Like the Clinton sham marriage.