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Shameless Self-Promotion: A Tool Women Need

Are you a history buff? No? Me either, but I will never forget Glenn Close in “Dangerous Liaisons”. The scene still sticks in my mind where her life of privilege and power climaxes in ruins — because she dared to what? Manipulate people to suit her purposes, avenge herself (jilted by the man she loved who used her and tossed her aside for a younger version), seek revenge, relish the feeling of power, and revel in her own self-centeredness. Gosh, this reminds me of something… what is that…I know — MEN.

Ohhhh, wait a minute, is this male bashing? Some may say so. I believe it is simply one passionate opinion about the pandemic effect of this two thousand-year-old inequity. What I am trying to say really is that how come when a woman tries to bend things to suit her needs she’s a thankless whore, and when men do it they are…just being men. When women are shrewd in business — arranging people, places, and things to most optimally benefit her desired goals — they are willful bitches, and men, savvy hunters?

Elizabeth Edwards and the Toll of Infidelity

Maybe because I deal with a lot of divorced women who have had their hearts sautéed in a frying pan as a result of infidelity and disappointment, I am not surprised that Elizabeth Edwards could be both Saint Elizabeth and Lady Macbeth.

Some women are just driven to it. I am not making an excuse for her behavior, but I do understand it.

For me, the telling heartbreaking detail was what she said to one of her husband’s staffers after living in a bubble of denial for so long about her husband’s mistress Rielle Hunter and then having her illusions popped so publically. (Babies will do that). As reported in the book, “Game Change,” she desperately cried out, “I have to believe it. Because if I don’t, it means I’m married to a monster.”

The guy she married had indeed morphed into an unrecognizable, egotistical monster. But he was still the father of her children.