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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
The Catholic church also teaches a whole lot about forgiveness - maybe they view that as something important in their marriage. Lots of progressive women still believe marriage is a lifetime commitment, believe it or not. And who knows, maybe they had an open marriage agreement and we didn't know it?
I'm not a Hillary fan, but I just hate the idea of that everyone says she should have divorced him - especially when it comes from the "family values" republicans. Adultery is a very difficult situation in a marriage and I think it is hard to say how one would react without being in that situation.
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I disagree that truly progressive women believe that women should stay with a repeatedly philandering spouse. Progressive women don't believe in allowing people to treat women like crap, IMO. Similarly, it's not a reflection of family values to stay with someone who repeatedly violates your marital fidelity. It's a mockery of marriage values, which may be why it bothers "family values" types more than more progressive types.
Certainly, forgiveness is going to be a component of any marriage, and you're right that we have no idea of what their understanding is.
But she isn't stuck with him in some kind of irrevocable way, which was the original point here, I think. Someone pointed out that much of what one poster objected to was beyond Hillary's control. Being married to Bill is not beyond her control.
Certainly, it's up to her, but I think it's fair, knowing what we do know about his serial adultery, to make judgments about her character one way or another about her willingness to stick with him.
He's either an assess or a liability. I don't think anyone thinks that he's incidental to her potential presidency.