Hat tip: JD
“It’s very easy for people on the outside to criticize and say, ‘I wouldn’t have been there. Why is she there? He disgraced her,’ ” Dina Matos told TODAY’s Matt Lauer on Tuesday in New York.
“It’s a very personal matter,” Matos told Lauer. “For me, I thought about my daughter. This was a man that I loved, whom I had taken a vow to stand by in good times and in bad, and that was the right decision for me at the time. It was very personal. It was not about the politics.”
She said that she still believes she did the right thing — for her and her daughter. Some day, she said, “My daughter probably would thank me and acknowledge that I was there for her father.”
“Matos emphasized that she was speaking for herself. “I don’t know what’s going through her mind,” she said of Silda Spitzer. “But I’m sure that her family certainly played a role in the decision, her role as a mom to protect her daughters, to do whatever it takes to try to keep the family together, at least to have some semblance of normalcy.
TheStateOf . . . Political Wives. These women are doing the right thing for their families. Any woman who leaves her man the first time she catches him trickin’ doesn’t love him anyway. But Spitzer’s mess up provides a perfect lesson for men: thinkin’ with your meat can ruin your life.
