Blame

We've been watching The Split. It's a BBC show about divorce lawyers who I think are going to get divorced. And probably do it poorly. Something happened in one of the episodes that just really annoyed me.

As a culture, we really really REALLY need to get over this thing where one person cheats and the non-cheating partner is somehow blamed for it. What is up with that? Why would we do that? If one person cheats, that is a THEM thing. It really should not reflect on the other party. They're going through enough as it is.

I mean, we have special names for men when they're cheated on. When women are cheated on, people laugh at them and ridicule them. People blamed H. Clinton for things her husband did. Why? She did not do them. Why blame her?

It's so strange to me that in this moment when we should show someone sympathy because they've been betrayed and had their lives uprooted we, instead, choose to treat them like crap. That's really messed up.