Rielle Hunter’s Stunted Fantasy Life
From Rielle Hunter’s interview with George Stephanopoulos:
GS:You would still walk up into that room six years later, knowing everything you know now?
RH: Would I do that again? No way.
GS: No?
RH: Absolutely not.
GS: So in the end, even though you got this lovely gift, of Quinn. The relationship was a mistake.
RH: I don’t, many things in the relationship was a mistake, but I don’t regret loving him.
GS: And you still love him.
RH: I do.
GS: And he still loves you?
RH: You’d have to ask him that, but I think he does. I mean that I feel that he does.
GS: So how does that work going forward? You have a daughter together. You are a family.
RH: We are a family but as last, the end of last week, John Edwards and I are no longer a couple.
Watching this interview, it’s hard not to notice Hunter’s vivid, immature fantasy life.
As she talks about her relationship with former presidential contender John Edwards, you can practically get whiplash as she swings between reality and make believe, going from giddy girl and back again to sensible woman.
David Swindle recently pointed out how sad it is when a 50 year-old man hasn’t grown up sexually since he was 13. Hunter demonstrates the female version of this aberration. Like most adolescent girls, she embraces idealized definitions of love, marriage and family.
Hunter says, “We are a family” but admits they are “no longer a couple.” This “family” only exists in her imagination. Just because her fantasy life produced offspring it doesn’t mean she’s built a family.
A mature woman knows that it takes an immense amount of self-sacrifice to create a family. You can’t just wave a magic wand and conjure up one.
Has Hunter inadvertently exposed the underdeveloped mental anatomy of a mistress?
It’s modern-day concubinage, though few people call it that.
She’s still on a fantasy shopping spree – searching for clothes, shoes, matching accessories, fame . . . . . and a husband and father to her child. Unfortunately for her, the husband & father exist only in the store window of her imagination, and in lieu of fame, she got notoriety.
As bad as Obama is I still have to give him kudos for never cheating on his wife. John Hunter on the other hand couldn’t even wait for his cancer stricken wife to pass away…he was having sex and lying about it to her and to the whole country while his wife lay dying in her bed. He came close to becoming at least a Presidential candidate. We have to start vetting our candidates much better in the future.
Dear Quinn
dismiss resentment that Elizabeth Edwards controlled where Rielle lived, “team Edwards” and the inconvenience SHE was caused, “rent was to be taken out of the child support…left us with basically no money.” Quinn, know this, you don’t NEED YOUR BOYFRIEND, OR HIS WIFE, TO TAKE CARE OF YOU. It’s CHILD SUPPORT, not MISTRESS SUPPORT, or GIRLFRIEND SUPPORT. Quinn, when you grow up, always be able to take care of yourself, be able to support yourself, until then, you’re not responsible for supporting your mother.