Posted on 12/21/2010 11:16:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
Timing truly is everything and sometimes - when it comes to love - the timing is just, well, wrong.
Or is it?
A New York couple is causing quite a brouhaha after their wedding profile ran in the New York Times' Vows section this weekend. Why the controversy? The couple - a New York City television reporter and a high-powered ad executive - told the paper how their love blossomed while they were each married to someone else.
That's right. They were each in long-term marriages, and each have children. In fact, it was the children who brought them together, sort of. You see, Riddell and Partilla met at their kids' school. So, while the other mommies and daddies are having parent teacher conferences, it seems Riddell and Partilla may have been having a little, um, conference of their own.
The two - who, along with their spouses, were good friends before romance blossomed. That's right, the four of them had dinners together, attended parties and hit the road for family vacations, along with their children.
They insist that the relationship was platonic, at first, yet admit to being instantly struck by one another. Eventually, they decided to leave their respective spouses - and, in turn, their children - to become an official couple.
The buzz on the 'net is that she's an, um, selfish individual (hey, this is a family newspaper, I need to keep it clean), and he isn't seen as much better. But, they are in love and don't seem to care much what the public thinks - which is fair, they shouldn't.
What I wonder, though, is what their children think.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Kudos to you!! Attraction happens. Adultery doesn’t have to.
Kudos to you!! Attraction happens. Adultery doesn’t have to.
bet they go to the PTA meetings together ..
Maybe, but I would say that it’s actually worse in terms of social harm in that it leaves it’s victim alive and damaged, allowing the harm to spread.
I’m not saying that murder isn’t harmful, just that adultry is more harmful in the long run.
Murder is final. In theory the effects of adultery are not. I don’t really disagree as to your statements as to the long term effects of adultery. I myself think it is treated too lightly in contemporary thought and feeling. Indeed adultery often forms the basis of crimes of passion.
It’s not theory, you’re completely correct that murder is final while adultery is not. I likewise agree that adultery often forms the basis for crimes of passion, so in a way I could see adultery as a delayed form of murder.
All that aside, I completely agree that adultery is treated much too lightly by contemporary standards.
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