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In reply to the discussion: WTF? Alan Grayson's estranged wife is getting food stamps [View all]PDJane
(10,103 posts)And where do I say that the person who stays at home has to be a she? I know several instances where the person who stays at home is a he, and both partners planned it that way. They enjoy it.
Understand something. I don't care what their domestic arrangements are, but saying that his wife is a victim of domestic slavery is an allegation that we can't prove, and that's part of your prejudices, which are really evident.
I don't care that she lived with him for however many years, I don't care when they got married, I don't care who instituted the divorce.
I do care that she was married when she decided to marry Grayson, and that she had to know that. That's an important distinction. Telling someone that you are single when you aren't is not an innocent mistake. A marriage contracted under those circumstances is illegal. Whatever Grayson did or didn't do, whatever we think he did or didn't do, he didn't know his marriage wasn't legal, and he didn't know his wife was still married to someone else.
You cannot whitewash this. She was married and she knew. The law isn't inclined to forgive that kind of lapse. Frankly, neither do I.