Now, I may be the pot calling the kettle black, here, but...
This whole thing with Jon Gosselin doing whatever he was doing with another woman? I don't condone the behavior, but my understanding from hearing others talk about the show (which I have never seen) is that Kate is pretty disrespectful of her husband. On national television. Men can't handle that, especially for long periods of time, without damage being done to them emotionally. I can hardly blame the guy for wanting to hang out with someone who treats him with honor instead. Someone give his wife a copy of The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, for pete's sake.
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Having a bad spouse is no excuse for having an affair. She is difficult, but he married her and needs to make a choice to stop being ruled by her. He has a choice in the matter. She treats him like one of the children. I find it distasteful to watch her, so I seldom watch the show. She has some serious control issues. Personally I believe in mutual submission and unity in marriage not in one spouse ruling over the other. They do not seem to have a good married in the first place and now it’s in pretty serious trouble. When a couple has children, they have to be responsible for the well-being of their children and to do their best to have a solid marriage. It doesn’t look to me like either of them is doing that. Kate may think she is since she is trying to keep everyone and everything under control, but what she is really doing is demeaning her husband and smothering her children.
(Hi, Cynthia! I was just thinking about you the other day!)
I agree that he did wrong and has a choice. I do think, though, that he was basically set up to fail. If what he says is true and he never physically cheated on his wife, then what we have is an emotional need that isn't being met at home, and it takes an extremely strong man to go without respect and still remain emotionally faithful.
I think they are both equally at fault. Both spouses have choices. Jon chooses to make his wife’s controlling behavior work for her by falling in line around the house, then going out and looking for more elsewhere. That is immature and foolish behavior. He doesn’t have to respond like a child and then act in a passive-aggressive manner. She can choose to stop treating him in a controlling and disrespectful way, but she doesn’t know how to behave differently any more than he does. Maybe this will be an eye opener for them both and they will seek help to solve these issues through godly mutual submission and working together as one rather than what they have been doing.
When doing some research on this, it does appear that Jon is having an affair, but it may also be true that Kate is also having an affair. Hopefully for the sake of their children, if nothing else, they will get some serious help and work to solve their personal and marriage problems.
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