I don't think she'll ever divorced Bill even if she doesn't win. Who are we kidding? A rich 70 something on the loose?
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Well, I think that there probably are a number of affluent women who wouldn’t want their husbands to be able to openly date/flaunt young women in their faces.
It is so much easier for affluent older men to find trophy babes/wives than it is for women to find the opposite.
A single Bill would just be a publicity nightmare for her.
Besides, I think they want to stay together. They’re enjoying their grandbaby.
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^^Married Bill caught with his pants down is more a publicity nightmare than single Bill in the same situation.
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Yes, of course. However, as a married person, he’s likely going to at least try to be discreet. As a single person, he wouldn’t have to make any effort at all. We’d be seeing him with a different babe every week…that would be a nightmare for any middle-aged ex-wife.
Seriously, I really feel for many divorced middle-aged women who have to “suck it up” while their ex’s are parading around with 20-somethings or 30-somethings.
I have a few male friends around 60
who got divorced. Two married women 20-25 years younger. The other guy will.
This has stirred up quite a bit of dirt. The husband of one of my wife’s best friends, left his wife and he is remarrying somebody close to 20 years younger. The wedding is today.
When my wife first heard the husband left his wife, my wife started yelling at me. I said, "Hey! I didn’t do anything. I’m still here! "
Abandonment is a very big issue as women age, isn’t it?
Same for men without money when they age, who are we kidding? These young women marry these older men for love? Even Larry King wouldn’t even believe it.
People’s relationships are complex. Hillary is ambitious, and even today getting divorced as a politician can hurt you (though I suspect it will hurt women more, with men we have the phenomena of multi divorced people like Gingrich claiming to be family values people, go figure). More importantly, marriages are based on a lot more than sex, and Bill being a good ole boy philanderer was not exactly unknown in political circles, many of those who went after him with paula jones and Lewinsky themselves ended up being outed as serial cheaters, some had kids with their mistresses.
If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that there is actually respect their between them, that intellectually and otherwise there is a lot of respect for each other and that can form pretty strong bonds. Though FDR obviously cheated on Eleanor for years (and she likely may have had a long term lesbian affair with a reporter), there was a lot of respect for each other, FDR values Eleanor’s opinions and in some ways was scared of her criticism from what I have read
We obsess about sex in this society, and religion and culture have made it seem like marriages are all about sex, and that is simplistic to say the least. Yes, to a lot of people fidelity in sex is important, they will break up a relationship over cheating, they see it as a fundamental betrayal, as insulting to them, demeaning, and so forth (and I obviously am not criticizing them for feeling that, I can understand those feelings, I would feel the same way if that happened to me), but for others it may not be as big an issue. I don’t know if they had a tacit understanding, and Hillary was only mad because his was embarassingly public, but it tells me there is a lot more to their relationship than sex.
FDR and JFK’s marriages happened a while ago. I think Bill and Hillary are today’s marriage, it’s definitely strange. But I’m not surprised if we find out later that she has somebody on the side. Bill has outside interest, Hillary must be too. A sexless marriage between them, maybe, but what about Hillary’s sexual need.she must have an outlet somewhere. I’ll bet the last time they got together was when Chelsea was created.
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I have a few male friends around 60
who got divorced. Two married women 20-25 years younger. The other guy will.
This has stirred up quite a bit of dirt. The husband of one of my wife’s best friends, left his wife and he is remarrying somebody close to 20 years younger. The wedding is today.
When my wife first heard the husband left his wife, my wife started yelling at me. I said, "Hey! I didn’t do anything. I’m still here! "
Abandonment is a very big issue as women age, isn’t it?
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Think about it… If middle aged divorced women could just as easily hook up with men who earn 2-5 times what their H’s earned, then men would suddenly start feeling vulnerable as well.
My friends keep telling me that after menopause, they have little interest in sex
Hilary is at least as old as they are, and she always struck me as being pragmatic, with an eye to the big picture.
