i know marital fidelity is a huge issue for some couples, but i don't think everybody feels the same way. some women are happy enough with a good provider who every so often finds sex elsewhere. perhaps the edwards were the sort of couple for whom children, property, and shared career-interests far outweighed shared intimacy.

if elizabeth edwards is furious, it may be more a function of the blow to her ambitions than any real sense of sexual betrayal.