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In reply to the discussion: Was Paula Broadwell threatening Patraeus' wife? [View all]CTyankee
(68,235 posts)48. She may be. But what was she going to be anyway?
She has her book and will have her screen rights. She'll have lots of money. She can do what she wants professionally.
Her private life is a different story. Read Anna Karenina. She may end up without her kids which would be a real tragedy.
OR, she may go on to other things. It's a new world for women nowadays. We are not stuck in the old paradigm where the woman is ALWAYS the victim. We'll see...
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I don't think he even cared what his wife or anyone else thought, based on what I've read...
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#23
I think he was an opportunist form the beginning. He wooed the daughter of West Point's
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#32
Well, if you mean that others became jealous of both her and him, yes, I can see that.
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#39
Oh, I dunno. It's a pretty glamorous situation, better than the wife's surely.
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#43
My initial thought, too. She prolly thought the other woman was "encroaching" on what she
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#20
I may be wrong, but this would not be "impeachable" or whatever in Europe, right?
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#17
Face it. The US is still stuck in the Victorian Age. Affairs=sex=bribable offense. Europe,
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#49