Women HITTING ON YOUR HUSBAND While You Have a Cancer Diagnosis??? BEEN THERE!!!

Rielle. Oh, I meant Really.

I just don't understand how these women get away with it.

Great post on John Edwards, btw.

Thank you for your comment. It takes two to tango, and in the beginning of my post, I do place blame on John Edwards. I also place blame on Rielle Hunter, and I will continue to. Looking at the pictures of Elizabeth Edwards gazing adoringly at her husband pre-scandal and news leaks, I doubt she was ok with it. Furthermore, if Rielle didn't know about Elizabeth's cancer, she must have been living under a rock or on Mars. 

You also sound like someone who is quite adept at articulating the side of the other woman. Why would anyone go into a relationship with a high-profile very wealthy married man whose wife has cancer, and have his baby?

Can you tell me what that big picture is?

I know this is none of my business and, thank God, I am healthy (for now, you never know!). However, this woman sounds like "the other woman" in a relationship. Too much sympathy for the home wrecker. Hey, I'm divorced, 38, live in a small town where there is a shortage of single men, and yes, married men make passes at me at times, but do I hop into bed with them? Nooo... its a matter of principles and morals. So, no, at least for me, I can't look at the "big picture". I just see a tramp (and not a very pretty one, at that) who was just looking for a good opportunity. And no, I am not conservative or "close-minded", I just have a few principles.

Right on, sistah!
I was basically saying she was defending her own mistresshood.

So glad there are some of us out there YOU! with our heads on straight and not

up our arse!

Ladies, ladies.  Judge not, and all that.  There are people who are unusually good at seeing both sides (ask any Libra).  I don't know what the above poster's story is; none of us do.

That said, I work in breast cancer research, but do not have actual patient contact - I'm a data head.  (as a disclaimer, my bf has Stage IV colorectal cancer..life is weird).  I have often wondered how some of these husbands get by, especially in cases where the mets come and go, treatment is ongoing, some of the tougher cases, etc.  Just my $.02.  I know it's kind of a scary subject...

I continue to feel extremely empathic to Elizabeth Edwards, and to any woman

who is enduring a cancer diagnosis, and even more so when she has been confronted with a husband/lover/boyfriend acting in a manner that is less than faithful

during this particularly challenging time when she is fighting for her life.

That is why support groups exist. In the best of all possible worlds, the biggest and most supportive support group should be your home.