Cook is Cooked

Jill Brooke — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:22:24 -0400

After losing joint custody of his kids, losing any thread of dignity, losing potential clients (since women are the ones who often make decisions on hiring architects), Peter Cook had a revelation.

He told Fox News last night that, if he had to do it all over again, when he met future paramour Diana Bianchi, he'd say, "No, I'm a married man. Move on."

There is one problem with this revelation. It was he who was pursuing Bianchi, an 18-year-old girl. It wasn't as though she was pursuing him.

He was an adult married man who should have known better, just like Bill Clinton should have known better when he tangoed with Monica Lewinsky.

That's why we can't blame a Monica Lewinsky or a Diana Bianchi as much as we should blame their married lovers.

Yes, it takes two to do the horizontal mambo, and even young girls should have the moral backbone to dance away from this entanglement.

But in both cases, it was the mature adult who was in the power position and had the influence to sway what happened.

In life, there are consequences for whatever you do, as well as the opportunity to learn from them.

Mothers out there should remind their lovely, nubile daughters that these trysts with married men — despite the intoxicating halo of power around them — often have horrible outcomes.

Affairs destroy families and reputations. Rarely does the young woman get a long-term relationship with the husband, or even a soon-to-be-divorced man.

In fact, a Kinnsey Institute study of 2,000 people found that only 17 percent of males who had affairs were planning on leaving their spouses. And only 9 percent of the men planned to marry their current lovers.

Note that Peter Cook's current girlfriend is Suzanne Shaw, a 36-year-old single mother, not the now-21-year-old Diana Bianchi.

Another lesson is that most wives are not like Bambi in the headlights, in total shock and surprise over the affair.

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