I’d mock him for choosing such expensive prostitutes.
Just not in public. But I wouldn’t stand by his skanky cheating ass, either.
I’m very surprised by the responses in this thread. Huh. You learn something new every day.
Please.
I’d be calling up my classmates and getting a good rec on a divorce lawyer.
Sure I would stand there. With my high priced divorce lawyer.
hillary was not standing by bill, she was busy defending him solo on talk shows. then the news hit that there was proof. pictures after that mostly show chelsea between the 2 of them.
i must admit politics and entertainment are odd fields. usually a spouse isn’t at the place of work. in politics and entert. spouses are part of the work place. speeches, stand up, sport event, etc; spouse in attendence. good news or bad news usually the spouse is there.
to answer the op question, nope, i would not be there i would be in an “undisclosed” location. if i were the friend of someone in this position, i would offer my “undisclosed” location to friend for as long as they needed it.
The wronged wives don’t stand by supportively or even stoically for free, you know. Sometimes a go-between (from the party or the church or whatever institution stands to lose most by association) makes a financial offer that is difficult to refuse, sometimes with a time limit for how long she has to wait before initiating divorce proceedings.
I have to admit, I have a little yen to see just one of them give him a good swift kick, then stalk off the stage carrying a suitcase.
I’m impressed by** storyteller’s** answer–you’re a nicer person than me. I would certainly not be there.
No.
I think they do it because they’re shell-shocked and the default behavior is to keep hanging on.
Troublesome Gulch. I lived in Pine at the time. 
The simple point is that everyone needs somebody to be their friend in hard times.
That’s why the oath is “thopugh thick and thin”.
And, despite the prudery associated with public figures, every spouse has to accept that purity is the exception, not the rule.
With the divorce rate at 50 percent, there are many tens of millions of spouses who have decided to forgive and stay married.
I just wish one of these figures would say it out loud: “It happens all the time, and many couples face the problem and stay together. We’re one of those many couples, at least for now, and we would like our privacy.”
No. And he can find himself someplace else to sleep until the divorce papers are served, too.
“If I were [in then-President Clinton’s place], I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife say: ‘How do I reload this thing?’” – Representative Dick Armey, upon being asked what he would do if he were ‘in the president’s position’ during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
This all provided that there was a reasonable amount of proof he’d actually done it and it’s not just random slander, and provided I hadn’t given him permission because of some weird and dire set of circumstances. My self-worth and teaching my children to stand up for themselves trump his political career.
If I were married to the president, I’d probably grin and bear it because there would be more at stake than simply my marriage, and you need to keep the presidency functioning as smoothly as possible. As soon as the jerk was out of office though, that would be it.
Anyone else – ditto most of the answers above.
That’s about my thinking. I can barely even conceive of the bizarrely remote possibility of my wife cheating on me, so it’s hard to get my head around it, but otherwise I’m with Eureka. If I were in Gov. Spitzer’s shoes, though, I hope I’d at least have the class not to ask her to stand up there with me.
I was talking about this with my friends at work, and they made a couple of good points.
Mrs. Spitzer is probably waiting for Papa Spitzer to shuffle off this mortal coil, leave his estate to his son, then she can divorce his ass.
Secondly, we don’t know what their arrangement was. He could have been into kinky stuff, and she said, “Sorry, dear, not interested, but you go on ahead and let me keep my lifestyle.” If that’s the case, I bet she’s more pissed off that he got caught, not that he was cheating.
As for me, I’d want all sorts of concessions before I stood up there on that stage, up to and including saying “Of course dear” no matter what demands I made to his divorce attorney.
Yep - almost word-for-word the conclusions that Genghis Redhead and I reached.
As someone who has an “arrangement” in her marriage, this is always my default supposition in these cases. You tellin’ me Hillary and Bill didn’t/don’t have some sort of “arrangement”? Come on, people. Hillary way too savvy to not know what he was up to! She just didn’t think some momentary distraction would save a jizz-stained dress for years as some bizarre souvenir!
Anyway, yeah, obviously I’d be there were I in my current marriage and my husband a political figure. I might even go so far as to let it be known that we have a “European marriage” and while I didn’t support his breaking the law, the *adultery *was not a violation of our marriage contract. But then, I’ve never been one to hide my weirdness - I prefer to expand people’s notions of what “functional” can be. It’s there in the username, folks! 
If I didn’t have an open marriage? Yeah, I’d probably still be there, for any one of the reasons already mentioned: shock, uncertainty (better to act “normal” until I figure things out), copious amounts of sedatives administered hourly… Then there’s the “stand by your man” angle - that’s sort of what political wives do, isn’t it?
To be honest, it didn’t occur to me until watching The Daily Show that there was anything weird about her being there.
Nope. And the divorce papers would be coming soon after.
What ivylass and WhyNot said. I don’t usually follow the sex scandals of administrators of foreign sub-national entities, but has Mrs. Spitzer actually said or indicated that she disapproves of his running around with other women (leaving aside the law-breaking and the financial hit)? We can’t just assume these things.