Why Powerful Men Cheat
By YourTango posted
We've been around the block. We've seen enough political figures dropping trou to, if not yawn at another John Edwards-type scandal like Arnold Schwarzenegger has put himself in, then to certainly not be surprised by it. We've learned that even those politicians with an upstanding rep, adorable kids, and a kick-ass wife—maybe even especially those—seem to stray. The thing we've yet to uncover, though, is why. Tiger Woods Admits He "Let Family Down"
We get the human nature thing. A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted in March of 2008—right after the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke—found that 54 percent of Americans know someone with an unfaithful spouse. We're no math whizzes, but it seems to reason that unless each of the 1,025 people polled was referring to the same couple, that means half of all relationships in the U.S. suffer from infidelity—and people talk about it. But, with so much at stake and so many falling before them, how can men in the public eye cheat on their wives—and expect to get away with it? Read Diary Of A 23-Year-Old Mistress
Edwards, for one, wanted to explain, and so he did, on ABC's Nightline:
