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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One public figure who deserves more than a little criticism for the despicable and disposable manner in which he treated his first wife is the conservative NYT columnist David Brooks.

David met his first wife Jane Hughes when both were students at the University of Chicago, and they married in 1986.  Jane changed her name to Sarah and converted to Judaism for David.  At some point Sarah put her own full-time career, considerable intelligence, University of Chicago degree, and personal ambition aside, and devoted herself to raising the couple's three children.

All was good in the Brooks marriage until 2012, when David hired Georgetown graduate student Anne Snyder, a woman 23 years his junior, to serve as the research assistant for his 2015 book, "The Road to Character".  When the book was released in April 2015, Brooks devoted the entire lengthy opening paragraph of the Acknowledgments section to Anne, and relegated Sarah - his wife of 27 years - to one brief sentence at the very end.  As it was, a perfect metaphor for the state of David Brooks's affair(s) since he went on to divorce Sarah by 2015, and marry Anne in 2017.  Adding insult to Sarah's injury, David converted to Catholicism for Anne (and she did not have to change her name either, so bonus points there).

But really the coup de grace and Sarah's private humiliation was likely delivered when David Brooks earlier published a March 3, 2015 Opinion piece in the NYT titled "Leaving and Cleaving."  With the benefit of hindsight, many observers have interpreted that column as a thinly veiled, farewell, hate note to Sarah, to the effect of: "Accept that I have dumped you, and now take the high road and leave me the h@ll in peace."  I suggest that you read it.

Despite the abject cruelty administered by David Brooks [b]to his devoted wife of 27 years Sarah, and their three children,[/b] people barely blinked an eye at this abhorrent conduct.  In fact, Atlantic media owner David Bradley and his wife Katherine Bradley threw David and Anne a pre-wedding luncheon attended by many of Washington's media and political notables.  It reminds me of an old Spanish saying to the effect of: "The rich and powerful man will always be kowtowed to."  Indeed he will, but I personally can never read David Brooks the same way again.[/quote]

How do you know what their relationship was like? Was she really devoted to him? You are reading what you want to in to the situation. People change are 27 years. [/quote]

The facts are simply these.  David Brooks was with his wife and family until, apparently, he met and worked with another woman (23 years younger) that he preferred to be with.  Sometime during the overlap between the two women, his first wife and the new research assistant, he chose to leave his old wife of 27 years, and marry the new wife.[/quote]

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