Eliot and Silda Spitzer are still married reinforcing the meaning of “for better or worse.” The former New York Governor is back in the news.
Quite surprisingly, he is more popular than Governor Paterson.
One year ago we all gasped when it was reported that he had been caught with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel. We gasped because he was a rising star, the Eliot Ness of Wall Street.
Some of us wondered — was Gov. Eliot Spitzer set up? Was this a way to turn a rising star into a falling star? Usually this kind of thing would have been handled at the state level.
I was not cutting him slack at the time. I am often too outspoken about adultery – “for every time you cheat, you will be cheated!” But the Bible can be a bit more tolerant that I am on the topic since it says: “Let he who is not guilty cast the first stone.”
Now one year later, the Governor is said to have lost everything politically. But he has what is most important — his health, his family, and his marriage. As the Newsweek interview noted, “One grotesque irony of political sex scandals is that in the beginning, when the pain and shock are greatest, husband and wife need each other more than ever, for each of them is under attack from the outside world.”
The story goes on: “When you’re in the foxhole with somebody,” Spitzer says, “and there are incoming mortars, that breeds a certain closeness because nobody else can appreciate what you’re going through.”
Silda Spitzer, one woman among many, who knows how to “stand by her man.”
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Copyright 2009 Rita Watson