History closed the books on John Edwards' tawdry career a year ago, but his long-suffering wife is adding a footnote to the story of the negligence lawyer who served one term in the Senate, spent more time than that running for president as a champion of the poor while raking in money from a hedge fund and was eventually unmasked as a cheating husband by a tabloid newspaper.
In a forthcoming book titled "Resilience," Elizabeth Edwards now discloses she knew of her husband's infidelity a year before it became public, soon after he announced his candidacy.
"I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up," she writes, according to the New York Daily News' report on an advance copy.
"Long-suffering" is inadequate to describe a woman who, after own successful career as a lawyer, lost her 16-year-old son in a car crash and was diagnosed with cancer that went into remission only to return as she supported her unfaithful husband's second bid for the presidency.
Even now, with this new book, Elizabeth Edwards chooses once again to forfeit her privacy and, while expressing her anger, hold on to a stand-by-your-man outlook.
"I lie in bed," she writes, "circles under my eyes, my sparse hair sticking in too many directions, and he looks at me as if I am the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. It matters."
It's hard not to feel for her pain and admire her spirit while wishing she had had better luck in love and life.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Friday, January 09, 2009
Worst Marital Breakup Ever?
As coauthor of a book on the subject, I feel qualified to nominate this one for the Bad Divorce Hall of Fame.
A New York surgeon who donated a kidney to his wife now wants it back as part of their separation agreement or, failing that, $1.5 million in damages.
He claims his wife began having an affair two years after he gave her the kidney and caused him emotional distress. "I felt humiliated, betrayed, disrespected and disregarded as a person, a man, a husband, as a father," he says.
It was, as his attorney might put it, like a blow to the solar plexus of a biologically impaired spouse. No word on what he plans to do with the kidney if he gets it back.
A New York surgeon who donated a kidney to his wife now wants it back as part of their separation agreement or, failing that, $1.5 million in damages.
He claims his wife began having an affair two years after he gave her the kidney and caused him emotional distress. "I felt humiliated, betrayed, disrespected and disregarded as a person, a man, a husband, as a father," he says.
It was, as his attorney might put it, like a blow to the solar plexus of a biologically impaired spouse. No word on what he plans to do with the kidney if he gets it back.
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