Or even if they were like "Fuck you, we MAY work this out, POSSIBLY, with a lot of counseling and GROVELING, but I'm not going to your damn press conference, and won't be seen in public with you for at least six months"

Dina McGreevey wrote for the NYT opinion page today on what it was like for her:

For me, I was essentially in the dark about what my husband was going to say. He never told me he was gay; he simply passed me a copy of his speech an hour before the press conference. I was in a fog. I certainly didn’t volunteer. I was in no emotional state to make a rational decision, and there simply wasn’t time. He asked me to stand next to him, and I did.

Frankly, all I was thinking about was my daughter. If I had to do it over again, I’d do the same thing. I did it for my daughter’s father.

eta: I hit post when a student walked into my office, before I got to say: It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.

It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.

Seriously. What a cowardly ass.

It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.

That is some hard core fuckery right there.

"Hey, glance this over, will ya?"

"It's a Post-It note. It says: 'Your life is crumbling around you'. What does it mean?"

"I like the cock."

Kat--maybe we can do lunch Friday? I'm pretty jammed up the rest of the week.

The guy two cubes down sent me an email titled "Very Fierce" and I don't want to read the rest of it.

It would be very convenient if more native English speakers could actually write in the language so I wouldn't have to ask for clarification--and it would be sensible if I didn't get self-conscious about it. Hrrm.

I did it for my daughter’s father.

How incredibly selfish of him to make her have to split him into two people, one of whom me has to be decent to.

Cuteness Alert!!!

Baby fox: [link]

Baby raccoon: [link]

Baby polar bear: [link]

Baby giraffe: [link] [link]

I did it for my daughter’s father.

I seriously need to stop reading about douchebag fathers right now.

What happens when penguins break into your house: [link]

Jesus. What a fucker.

I'm guessing too that at this stage in the game, you don't really know what you're going to do going forward, so not making things even more public by refusing to attend and shifting more attention/speculation to yourself probably has its appeal.

Just got off a conference call with clients in Houston and London. Two of the people on the call were in London, but one was an American and the other had a Russian accent. My boss and I were disappointed we didn't get to hear any British accents....

Hee! Was just coming here to ask why it is that people with British accents can get away with so much more in meetings than the rest of us. Just came out of a planning session and this guy who transferred recently from London was all "ok, this is fucking crap" and "no fucking way" and "so-and-so will fucking pee himself" all over the place and nobody bats an eye. I don't think I could get away with that.

It just sounds so much more cultured.

The McGreevy's have been he said/she said from the start with this. His people saying "she knew for a long time" and hers saying "this was a complete shock". I suspect the truth lies somewhere intbetween and was amped by both for the divorce case (which seems to have been particularly ugly).