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Honesty About Infidelity is the Best Policy?

Well, it's probably best to get it all out in the open ...

New York's governor, David Paterson, hasn't been in his new job a day and he's already dealing with news about an extra-martial relationship. Sort of.

Paterson became New York's first black governor Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned last week after his involvement with a call girl ring became known last week

Only this news didn't come about as the result of an FBI sting, or an investigative report or a former mistress telling all. It came from Paterson and his wife Michelle in an interview with The New York Daily News. Michelle Paterson also admitted in the interview she too had an extra-marital affair. The Patersons "acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago."

"This was a marriage that appeared to be going sour at one point," Paterson conceded in his first interview Saturday. "But I went to counseling and we decided we wanted to make it work. Michelle is well aware of what went on" ...
"Like most marriages, you go through certain difficult periods," Michelle Paterson said. "What's important is for your kids to see you worked them out."

The Patersons decided to talk about their marriage after rumors had been "circulating in Albany and among the press corps in recent days" said the newspaper.

Perhaps admitting to extramarital affairs will become like what now happens when you admit to past drug use when you were a teenager. It causes a stir for a few days and then disappears.

9:26 AM ET | 03-18-2008 | permalink

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I'm starting to wish GW had cheated on Laura. Because apparently a cocaine habit, drunk driving, duping America into war and trampling on the Constitution are permissable. But infidelity is a reason to stop the presses!!!

Sent by Sallie | 10:12 AM ET | 03-18-2008

I couldn't help but laugh when I turned on the news this morning and this was the first thing I saw. Humanity is such a mess...

Sent by Karen | 11:15 AM ET | 03-18-2008

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