Fuck Arnold

Just in case you've just returned home from some sort of information free retreat or are reading this months from now, long after the media has moved on to the next equally predictable scandal, currently the world is stunned after learning that Arnold Schwartenegger, notorious womanizer and former bodybuilder, has a 13 year old illegitimate son. But why is anyone surprised? Infidelity and Politics go together like quarterbacks and super models. Politicians including Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer and Mark Foley, actors from Brad Pitt to Jude Law and who could forget the tale of Tiger Woods. John F. Kennedy's relationship with Marilyn Monroe is legendary and yet somehow people continue to throw up their arms in shock and disgust at every predictable turn. Using nothing more than the admissions of friends and my own experience I'd venture to say that most people cheat. We wish it wasn't true, we want to believe in true love, happy endings and finding our one and only. We don't want to accept the fact that all we really want is a white dress and a big wedding and the perfect ring. The fact is if you ask any married person who's willing to tell you the truth they'll tell you that it's hard work and compromises, choosing when to argue and when to concede, accepting the friends and family that come with them and hoping that the person you're going to become will still be willing to fight for the person that they'll become. I'm not saying that what Arnold or any cheating husband did is okay, it's deplorable. They made a promise they didn't keep. They hurt people deeply and in his case destroyed a family that never saw it coming. I'm just saying let's not kid ourselves, relationships are mostly hard work peppered if your lucky with enough good memories to keep you going when you're ready to give up.


"Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener." - Anonymous