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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my opinion on why the husband filed the lawsuit:

Once upon a time an affair between a separated spouse and a faculty or staff member at their child's school -- no matter how genuine and beautiful the love, or how very discretely and privately maintained -- would have been considered a shocking thing indeed.

And in that time, if anyone had caught a whiff of what was going on, there would probably have been some societal consternation and condemnation of such love.

For better or for worse, those days are gone.  People now take a live-and-let-live approach and are, frankly, more likely to laugh at an affair than to judge it.

It is likely that no one at all has changed either their opinion or their treatment of the separated spouse or the staff member involved.

Perhaps the husband, recalling that once-upon-a-time, is frustrated that no one now seems to care about behavior which is arguably hurtful to him.

In filing the lawsuit he may hope that society-at-large will provide the judgment of the relationship that the immediate community involved did not.

He may also be trying to impose consequences for behavior which he feels has had none.[/quote]

Maybe, but an old-fashioned gentleman, as you describe, might think through the effect on his daughter to have the details of said affair printed in newspapers around the globe. He essentially eliminated any chance that his child can get over this.[/quote]

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