[nickcarraway]

Personally, I think a guy like this was a creep, and deserves whatever he gets.

Collop also remembered one time when she saved Schaffer's previous girlfriend from a similar fate.

This proves she was really stupid, but it doesn't make what he did excusable.

[DoughtyOne]

Sure does. Same thought occurred to me. If he'll do it to them, he'll do it to you. I always wonder about women who get involved in affairs with a guy that's married. If they should be unlucky enough to grab the guy away, what's the prognosis for him being faithful to them? Zilch!

[Congressman Billybob]

I once represented a woman who wanted a divorce. She found pictures of her husband flagrente delicto with his girl friend, when she developed a roll of film in HER OWN camera. After I contacted the husband, he went into a sweet-talking, "she meant nothin' to me" mode. Eventually, he won his wife over.

She came to my office, and said she was dropping the divorce case, and wanted all of the phtographs back. I didn't try to talk her out of it. I DID retain just one photograph in my files. Neither she nor he noticed that one was still out there.

Sure enough, the wife showed up all teary-eyed a few months later and said, "The [louse] was just conning me." She wanted to reinstitute the divorce.

Eventually, I told the husband's lawyer that I still had one photo of the "happy couple (not the wife)." He and his client settled with dispatch.

Moral of the story: Women in bad relationships want to believe what makes them feel comfortable. They can be conned because they are willing to accept the con. That does not make them bad people. And that certainly doesn't justify the horrendous behavior of their current (or ex-) mates.

Congressman Billybob