Posted on 02/23/2018 6:52:56 AM PST by Kaslin
CBS News has a strange way of marking Valentine's Day. On the Sunday after Wednesday's romantic dinners and flowers, "Sunday Morning" linked the day to a deep study of marital infidelity.
Reporter Tony Dokoupil found an expert: therapist Esther Perel, author of "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity." He also found two cheating wives who explained their cheating ways without any guilt. CBS insisted we need to "rethink our attitude" toward the sin of adultery.
It happens in every period of time and every culture, CBS explained. So does murder, and it's uncertain whether CBS thinks we must "rethink" that, too. There should be no villains when infidelity happens, Perel lectured: "To think about them just as a good person and a bad person does not help the millions of people who are experiencing it -- the children, the friends, the family."
Perel found fault not with cheaters but with those who label them as such. "We do not claim moral superiority just because we haven't cheated," she insisted. "And just because we haven't had sex with somebody else, we think we are the mature, and the committed, and the superior? This has got to change, or we will never have an honest conversation about this."
An "honest conversation" is code for rewriting morality. Except morality can't be rewritten. It just is. Morality can't be altered, but it can be ignored, and that's what the "experts" want to accomplish.
Dokoupil announced a new equality of the sexes: "According to a survey by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, female philanderers are catching up with their male counterparts for the first time on record." What is that? An achievement?
CBS spotlighted "Kristie" and "Daphne," who wouldn't use their real names. They had one thing in common regarding their cheating. Each had used the "married dating" site Ashley Madison. It sounded like a tawdry commercial as CBS relayed, "The site is booming, with 20,000 new members a day."
Kristie went shopping for dates after her husband said something "very disrespectful, very hurtful" to her. "I pulled my phone out, and I went to my phone and I said, 'woman looking for men to have affairs with,'" she said. When her husband found text messages from her lover, Kristie says, she just ended it: "I didn't deny it. I'm like, 'Yup, and I want a divorce.'" There was no remorse, just relief.
Daphne, who also hid behind a screen, said she had a good marriage for 22 years, but her husband has Alzheimer's disease, and morality got in the way. "I wasn't going to be able to continue taking care of my husband if I didn't have some fun," she claimed. "(B)ecause I was impatient with him. I cried. I was just angry. And now I'm much more patient with him. I don't get angry. I'm a better wife now than I was."
She's a better wife ... now that she cheats. And he has Alzheimer's, so it's a win-win?
The CBS story ended on a high note, as the cheater Kristie announced that she married the boyfriend she found on Ashley Madison. She was asked how saying those vows felt. She said, "I know ... it's forever!" Or until she gets the hots for the next guy.
This is the perverted Leftist journalism that attacks decency as the Washington Post did when they published three defamatory articles about Billy Graham within 48 hours of his death.
And if they file for divorce, they’ll get half.
Sick stuff. I used to know someone who lived out the Eagles song, Lyin’ Eyes. She married a rich, much older man who eventually was disabled in a nursing home, but she always stayed married and had male friends. Ugh.
“”This has got to change, or we will never have an honest conversation about this.””
Just who in the dickens makes this a subject for a conversation anyway? Over a game of Bridge, perhaps?
These people are so hopeless I wish they’d just melt away, never to be heard from again!
Daphne, who also hid behind a screen, said she had a good marriage for 22 years, but her husband has Alzheimer's disease, and morality got in the way. "I wasn't going to be able to continue taking care of my husband if I didn't have some fun," she claimed. "(B)ecause I was impatient with him. I cried. I was just angry. And now I'm much more patient with him. I don't get angry. I'm a better wife now than I was.""
How old are these two? One consistent theme here IMHO is that it's "all about them".
The hatred in the entire “mainstream media” against what used to be praised as “American values” and “morality” and “Christian values” and “a work ethic” - much less “patriotism” - is obsessing them, is visible in EVERY page and issue and selection and tone of each story broadcast nationally. And many local stories too.
Heck, mention “patriotism” now and you hear it as a curse word, as “nationalist” is perverted to NAZI.
It’s not just this issue, CBS is always not so subtle propaganda. I’ve seen them do features on how glad parents are not to have their kids around. Give them to the state run school so you can have your freedom.
Infidelity was considered horrendous when only men did it, or mostly men. Now that more and more women want to do it, it's not considered to be so bad. So goes morality and a conscience.
Reporter Tony Dokoupil found an expert: therapist Esther Perel, author of “The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity.”.............I always heard that an expert was an amateur from out of town.
Women always have excuses for why they cheat. When a woman cheats she often feels morally justified in doing it.
“Kristie went shopping for dates after her husband said something “very disrespectful, very hurtful” to her”
So the guy has a bad day and pops off at his wife, and she thinks that justifies going out and nailing someone else? Wow.
In my life I’ve seen more woman cheating than men. Personally there is no excuse for this behavior. If you want out of a marriage get out. Divorce will probably be much easier, including being easier on the children if there are any.
I’d like to find a woman to live the rest of my life with, but it seems the negatives far outweigh the positives. Plus with retirement in the next decade or two I have to start circling my wagons, I can’t 1/2 everything again. Hopefully I find one that will make this a better deal.
Well... faithful men are "controlling abusive patriarchs," doncha know. With oppressive morality.
Women who cheat are liberated... and only do it because a bad man made them.
yup - according to libs, women have no agency.
Check out the comments to these articles. The Post readers are in a different world than I am.
Daphne, who also hid behind a screen, said she had a good marriage for 22 years, but her husband has Alzheimer's disease, and morality got in the way. "I wasn't going to be able to continue taking care of my husband if I didn't have some fun,"////////
I assume you have a perfectly good hand, Daphne.
Just found out that a couple I know that started dating in HS, got married, have several kids and a grandkid are getting divorced.
Why?
The husband caught the wife sexting/setting up “meetings” with another guy (also from HS) she was chatting with on Facebook.
~25 years of marriage, gone.
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