[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

[nickcarraway]

Good Job, counselor! You really earned your fee on that one. Sounds like Perry Mason if he covered divorces.