Let me fix that headline:
Maria Schriver should take Arnold Schwarznegger for everything he’s got.
'cause it's the Kennedy way?
Shrinks like Ablow would starve to death if their customers were not crazy.
Disgusted.
Why should we think he wants her back? He probably had a pre-nup and I don't think they have any kids (do they?). If that's the case there isn't jack she can do.
Actually, it is, along with abuse, addiction, and alcoholism.
Ablow should go blow. Maria was a woman in love, not a psychologist when she married Arnie. Where is Arnie's responsibility in all this?
The continuation of the article points out that she should have realized that he had a deep need for affirmation and admiration based on deep insecurities. Now that things are in the open the psychiatrist says they may be able to reconnects on a deeper level with professional help.
Nevertheless, she is going to have to forgive the fact that both she and the house servant were pregnant at almost exactly the same time. So, it was not like in the later months when it might be difficult for a big strong man to make love to a very pregnant women he was seeking need fulfillment. That might be easier to forgive. [When a friend of mine told me that her husband who had been in Europe for 4 months had been unfaithful there, she was able to forgive him because one of his attractions was that he was a vigorous and lusty man.]
It may be harder for her to forgive the long term affair he has had with another woman who has just come forward. Unless she had already accepted it. I have always wondered when some corageous political wife is going to step forward and say, “I can accept that my very popular husband may fall into temptation sometimes. But, so long as he comes home regularly, pays the bills, is good to me and the children, PRACTICES SAFE SEX, and makes love to me when I need it, I really don’t care, and neither should you.”
Just another back-door attack on Judeo Christin values I see.
She’s Catholic, I believe. An annulment would be required.
“I doubt it can come as a complete shock to Ms. Shriver and I believe it need not signal the end of her marriage.”
Perhaps no complete shock, and of course no one has to do anything about anything if they don’t want to. It just depends on the level of misery one is willing to live through and what kind of example they want to provide for their kids. I say life is too short to spend it with a skirt-chaser, drunk, and/or abuser while the kids watch it being put up with. Good for her to get away from someone who obviously doesn’t respect her and couldn’t possibly bring about the kind of happiness everyone deserves.
For all practical purposes, Maria is married to The Swimmer.
“Infidelity on the part of a husband or wife is not a reason to erase one’s marital vows.”
I think Jesus would disagree with the author:
Matthew 5:32
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery
That’s the ONE thing you can split the sheets over
I agree with this doctor that most marriages can be saved; the two can live separate while their issues are worked on.
Is this satire?
Dr. Ablow (!) - you can have him.
I don’t think it is any of OUR business one way or the other.
How can she take back a man who had an affair with their housekeeper, a trusted employee of 20 years service? And then kept her working in the home *knowing* that she had borne his child? Maria probably even threw a wedding shower for the woman!
And to think that he used Maria to vouch for him in front of the entire voting population of California when all those women came out to accuse him or groping them. If it wasn’t for Maria’s defense, he would never have won.
He’s nothing but a whited sepulcher. A woman would have to have NO self-respect to take him back after all the lies he told to her.
The man made a ****ing fool out of her, period, end of story.