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I do want to point out, this woman is loving unconditionally. She is willing to take him back after he has humiliated her in this way. She is a very strong person.
Preferably, Bud coming around is the best thing. The kids need both of their parents, but evidence clearly and strongly points to Bud as the weak link. He hasn't even told her why he left? I will be surprised if he comes back then, he didn't leave for any reason other than he wanted too, even to the detriment of his family.

I wish I could say I had 'unconditional' love for my better half. Most days it feels pretty conditional on the weather, my mood, how my job is going and how many bills I had to pay and weather the car has a full tank of gas. My own behaviour has very little to do with my wife and kids and far more to do with what a selfish, lazy, self-centered, bald-headed, fat slob I am. If I am really honest 90% of the arguments I start are unjustified by the subject at hand. I just want to shout at someone because I am pissed off about something.

In the end I'm just not that much of a romantic (can you tell?). I work at my own marriage because the alternative is so sad and lonely (for everyone concerned) otherwise. I've never met a happy divorced man, just a lot of men who pretend they are happy because they've got nothing else to hang onto. I don't really want to end up like them, in a titty bar somewhere, drinking watered down drinks and blaming other people for my miserable state.

I'm resigned to the fact that life is a struggle, a cross and that the best I can experienced is reading my little kids nursery rhymes and fairy stories and having the same wife I'm married to now help me bring them up and help get them to heaven. I am not looking for something better because I know there is nothing on this side of the grave.

There are men who think their wife is the sunshine of their life, and I envy you for feeling like that, but I don't think most men think this way.