Letters to the Editor
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I don't know anything about these real people, the Craigs,
but here's some speculation to add to the pile, and I am going to pick on them a bit as my example, even tho we don't know them (despite knowing more than we ever wanted to).
What if she knew full well he was gay, and the marriage is covering her secret, too? Let's not confuse "cuckquean" with "beard", or "willing participant".
I know, this is something that one usually reads evil people saying about Hillary. Forget that, it's stupid. The last thing a lesbian would want to be fake-married to is a panting hounddog. (Egads, what if she were the only woman left in the house after a particularly drunken fundraiser?!)
But just in the Craig situation, they were hastily married 24 years ago after the news broke in the papers that Mr. Craig might be gay. Rumors, sudden marriage. You don't think she was in on that?
And why would she (or any woman in this sitch) go along with it? Perhaps there is money arriving in an offshore account every month to bank against this day. Or perhaps she has don't-touch-me issues because of trauma or some such, and is perfectly fine being a beard. Or perhaps she's a lesbian.
Perhaps "game face, game face," is "oh god, don't look my way next!"
Or maybe she knew because she sat up with him one night while he cried and they talked about it and she really feels for him and promised to be his friend and try to help him cover it up? I mean, let's not leave out plain old compassion for someone that you've lived with for 24 years.
I just wouldn't always assume the wife was unwittingly "cheated on", which is what a cuckold is (the other poster was right, it's about not knowing the parentage of your kids, being lied to). That's actually assuming these women are dumb as stumps and unable to see their marriage rationally.
Although that happens, the blind cheat, but you can tell when it does, by the jewelry. The ones who really got cheated on sport $4 million eight-carat, purple diamond rings, like Mrs. Kobe Bryant, who can hardly lift up her arm.