Friday, May 22, 2009

Cheating Spouses, Conniving Cheaters

As I am reading the New York Daily News, right on Page 3, is an article exposing the extra-marital affair of Citigroup Board Chairman, Richard Parsons. Not that this is a new revelation or that this doesn't happen often, but I thought I'd write about the infidelities and who would be considered at fault based on the circumstances!

Now, this also brings to mind the Swizz Beats/Alicia Keys situation and even Jesse Jackson's affair that produced an out of wedlock child. Who is primarily at fault when it comes to extra-marital affairs? Is it the committed person, who signed into an agreement with his/her spouse to be dedicated to that spouse until 'Death Do Us Part'? Or is it the fault of the other party, (Provided that party knows the interested party is in fact, married) who has no legal or moral obligation to the married party, although knowing that the other party, is indeed in a committed relationship?