[MrEdd]

On the other hand, what his first wife did to him was an exponential order of magnitude more wrong, and we should not be talking about a divorce here.

We should be talking about an annulment.

Jackie was Newt's high school geometry teacher.
That she eventually married her boy toy does not make this okay.
That a bunch of smelly perverts on the naughty teacher threads whoop and holler over this crap, and cheer it on... does not make it okay.
It was a pretty fair bet from the get go that this marriage could not last, but there were kids in the deal and no unmessy solution.

None of this excuses Newt's subsequent behavior.
On the other hand, we can never know how Newt would have turned out if his geometry teacher had kept her clothes on.

[org.whodat]

Boy toy, some have said he was a willing boy toy and there was something about a draft notice. Just cannot recall for sure, now what was it.

[BenKenobi]

“That she eventually married her boy toy does not make this okay.”

So you’re blaming her for him cheating on her when she was sick? This is rich.

“It was a pretty fair bet from the get go that this marriage could not last, but there were kids in the deal and no unmessy solution.”

And why, is this the case? I don’t see why it could not have worked out well, had Newt been devoted to her as her husband. He was not, and the marriage broke down.

I see nothing there that would have encouraged me to give him an annulment. He’s still married to wife number 1, and the fact that he’s on wife number 3 doesn’t change this.