No wife, no mother ever deserves to have a spouse involved in a fatal attraction. For Steve Phillips, who this week took a leave of absense from ESPN, the family seems to have experienced a nightmare. His wife of 19 years filed for divorce last month.
“Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller film about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed, Fatal Attraction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sometimes men go through mid-life crises as well, and it seems that in his sexual encounters with a production assistant, Phillips not thinking with his head. What he probably expected to be a short escapade with a a young women has gone to extremely disturbing. Tubby Temptress” Filed Restraining Order, Gives Media The Finger. The episode is costing him his family and possibly his job. Can that be because Phillips is a repeat offender? Another mistress has surfaced, apparently more stable then Ms. Fatal Attraction: Steve Phillips first mistress Rosa Rodriguez surfaces
When you read how Brooke Hundley cyber-stalked Phillips’ teenage son, Steve Phillips Girlfriend Picture and a Statement from Teenage Son … posted today on The New York Daily News site, you will appreciate the well- documented look at this problem by Ruth Houston, our Infidelity Examiner: Brooke Hundley’s behavior raises questions every cheating man should ask about his mistress
The problem with sexual encounters, particularly when one party is married, is the secrecy and the inability to look at the other person from a rational perspective — hidden from friends and family who might be protective enough to see “the dark side.”
From Helium, Joe Gadlow reporting on a research study, says, “People are often caught up with the prospect of a relationship with someone that they are strongly attracted to and often don’t recognize that each bright side has a dark side, so therefore these kind of relationships fail, due to the inability of one or both people to perceive the others negative aspects as simple human nature.” The-make-or-break-theory-of-fatal-attraction.
He is right, of course, we all have a dark side. But for some, the dark side crosses over into dangerous and deadly.
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