Hi clo,
You assume his guilt. I prefer to presume innocence and not to get involved in divorce issues. Especially not where I have political reasons for partisanship.
Not only that but she failed to detail the abuse she accused him of. Counsellors will tell a spouse that a relationship was "abusive". That's not the same thing as abuse in a legal sense.
It certainly sounds like he can be a difficult guy.
But couples who divorce also usually have unpleasant arguments. And they can be depressing. It took me a fair amount of time to recover from my own divorce. Would I have ever talked to a reporter about it? Never. Have I ever even mentioned it here? No. It's my private life. (NB For clarity's sake, my divorce was not abuse-related, it just didn't work out and we actually remain supportive friends).
It's not my interest to have an opinion on the details of these people's failed relationships unless there's a criminal level of issue.
If abuse just equals arguing, then all married people should also be excluded from jobs in government.
This is why I suggested folks should focus on the extreme examples. These kinds of cases strengthen the hand of the much more serious abusers. The liars and the serial predators.
If abuse is defined as "I worked as a waitress for a while because I lost some confidence in my academic career", then I am afraid that isn't a national issue in my book. Sounds brutal, I know. But there's more snowflake in this story than there ought to be.
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