Dr. Laura: Women Share the Blame for Cheating Men. (See, it's mostly her fault).

MSNBC ^ | 3-11-08 | Mike Celezic

[ciocia]

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has never been one to shrink from controversy, and she leaped headlong into one on Monday when she said that if a husband cheats, his wife may share some of the blame.

“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said.

More commonly known as just “Dr. Laura,” Schlessinger made the remarks while participating in one of several panel discussions on TODAY dealing with the breaking news that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been connected to a high-priced prostitution ring.

[CholeraJoe]

It seems liberal men with great power feel they are entitled to sex with other women not their wife.

Are you saying that powerful Conservative men never stray? Two words - Larry Craig.

[Tribune7]

I used to wonder if Hillary was the way she is because Bill does the things he does, or does Bill do the things he does because Hillary is the way she is.

I pretty sure it's the former, now.

Slick is scum and destroys everything he touches.

[ASA Vet]

Some wives also grant or deny sex as a system of reward and punishment

Had one of those. That's much of the reason she's been an Ex for almost ten years.

[clyde asbury]

Excellent comments.

[Red in Blue PA]

A wife needs to make a man feel like a hero? And if she doesn’t, then it is okay for him to cheat? What nonsense!

[ASA Vet]

I wish I could of talked to him.

Why would you want to talk to a jerk like him?

[ASA Vet]

He obviously wasn’t looking for love.

Correct, he was looking for an act his wife wouldn't do.

[yankeedame]

Well that settles it. Now all I have to do is explain it to my wife.

Sure...sure..whatever you say. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go arrange for her bail.

[clyde asbury]

The headline is “...Women Share the Blame...”
The story quote is “wife may share some of the blame”
Operative word being “may”
A big difference.

Worth repeating.

[rintense]

You are so right. I know someone who basically had another baby to keep her husband, and almost died as a result. Now she uses that as a way to get whatever she wants (and a way to garner attention). He, realizing how much he loves her after her near-death whatever, is obliging her in every way he can. Oh, and by the way, she and the 'save the marriage' child do not get along. I wonder why?

There's no denying women CAN be manipulative in a marriage. But does it justify cheating? I think a good kick to the curb is better than fooling around.

[ASA Vet]

I used to wonder if Hillary was the way she is because Bill does the things he does, or does Bill do the things he does because Hillary is the way she is.

They've had an "open" relationship since their university days.

[Long Island Pete]

Sure...sure..whatever you say. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go arrange for her bail.

LOL

[MrB]

A wife needs to make a man feel like a hero?

Yes.

And if she doesn’t, then it is okay for him to cheat?

No. This was never stated (that it was “okay”). This is a “reductio ad absurdum” on your part.

[najida]

Delightful ain't it???

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: This is a “reductio ad absurdum” on your part.

She is saying that women can share the blame for cheating men.....how else am I to read that?

[dmz]

Of course, we’re all different but I would suggest that if a man cheats, it is because there is something, somewhere, lacking in his marriage. Seems pretty obvious.
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Certainly couldn’t be anything lacking in the man’s character, eh? The cause has to be the marriage? What seems pretty obvious to you seems to barely scratch the surface of the issue.

[StolarStorm]

I would say that the spouse becoming overweight and resistant to changing that, may well be the biggest cause of cheating and I also know that people hate hearing that. But from what I have seen so far, that is the case.

[Southerngl]

Oh Bull Dr. Laura. Men don’t cheat because they are NEGLECTED by their wives. (And for that matter, are men to blame if the woman cheats?) They cheat because they think they are above rules.

Dr. Laura is a selfhating woman.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Laura should put a sock in it and strip down.

[dmz]

It seems liberal men with great power feel they are entitled to sex with other women not their wife.
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Are you calling Newt Gingrich liberal? Trying to shoehorn marital infidelity into our safe little liberal / conservative boxes is ridiculous.