The most disgusting wedding announcement ever:

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/fashion/weddings/19vows.html?_r=1&ref=weddings

THIS is the featured wedding announcement in the NYTimes? I'm sick.
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Just Plain Frum!

So trashy!
Whatever happened to being normal??
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yuck. I hate how acting on your feelings is admired. Those poor kids.

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It could have been worse. They didn't have an affair....
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WOW. So leaving the spouse you had 3 kids with, because you fell in love with a stranger who entered the room when you just happened to be there, is acceptable. First youre family friends, with your spouses, and then you just up and leave the spouse because the new guy is cooler??? We truly live in a world of disposable families. How self centered and narcissistic. I'm nauseious.

PS notice how no one in the wedding photo looks happy, except the couple themselves.

and what will happn in five years from now when one of them will meet another new stranger whom they'll fall in love with?

Whatever happened with 'til death do us part'?

UGH.

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This stuff happens. But it doesn't need to make the NYTimes.

What was up with that phone call from the daughter? Why did she call then? Why did they answer?
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Diamond Member Joined: Mar 29 2005 Posts: 3592

Yeah, at least no affair, no lies.

What really saddens me is a similar state of mind from frum people. Oh, divorce is no big deal. Oh, I want another spouse. The kids? they'll still see their mom/dad and anyway many frum kids have divorced parents, there is no stigma anymore.

I certainly wouldn't want to marry someone who dropped a (normal) spouse for me. They probably think it's different and speshul and youneeek between them and it would sooo not happen again Rolling Eyes

Or they're the type to think one cannot spend decades and decades with the same person because we change. "It was made in a time people spent ten or fifteen years together before indeed death did them part!".

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When I was teaching this happened. At first these two girls were friends and neighbors in the same class. By the next year, they were sisters. Both parents were together the year before.

Animals!!! .... they smell some pheromones and common sense ,kids and innocent spouses all goes at the window!
sick selfish and twisted,those poor kids and the dumped spouses. Puke

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Gold Member Joined: Oct 27 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: NY

I think it's strange. I wouldn't call it an announcement, especially because they bring up all the pain that their ex spouses experienced...seriously...

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

How disgusting. These things do happen (a shanda), but think of the pain the ex-spouses of this "dynamic duo" are feeling. And to wake up every morning, put on the channel 4 news, and see this homewrecker.
Think of the pain of these children. The gossiping. The awkwardness they will feel in high school (The NY Prep School scene is a very small one!) :/

In most contracts for TV reporters, there is a clause that they can be fired if they do something that tarnishes the image or reputation of the station by their personal actions. I'm curious to see how much freelance work she will get now....

PS I'm sure people have had thoughts of "What if?" at some point in their marriages. But if acting on it, why cause so much pain and then act so casually about it?

Doesn't anyone care about how this will affect the children when their parents dirty laundry is aired in public like this?
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