FORTUNATELY, there has been some backlash against the article in Sunday’s weddings section of The New York Times about Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla, a New York couple who met at their childrens’ school and married after leaving their first spouses. There are many harsh remarks, as well as some comments defending the couple, in the comments section after the initial article. New York Magazine has a critical item, in which the groom regrets the publicity. One wonders if anyone has thought to contact the former spouses and ask what their reaction was when they opened a leading newspaper to find a glowing tribute to the affair that ruined their home lives. It would be similar to opening the paper and reading a glowing interview of a kidnapper who had taken your child.

The Happy Couple on their wedding day

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Michael Konieczny writes:

Narcissists. They should be shunned.

Laura writes:

Their friends and relatives who refused to shun them should be shunned too.

Elizabeth Wright writes:

I certainly never expected this story to go “viral” on the Internet when I read it in the Sunday Times.  I must say I was really surprised by the strong comments against the behavior of these two people, in  what I thought were the most unexpected places. Most of the comments on the MSNBC site were filled with expressions of contempt. Ditto for that Gawker.com site, which I thought was just another showbiz gossip  place, but the readers there were also mainly appalled.

Laura writes:

It’s a good sign. It shouldn’t be surprising given the large number of people who now count among the victims of marital betrayal, whether they be children of parents who have divorced or spouses who have been abandoned. 

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