I saw an episode of Family Guy a few nights ago that I have been stewing over for the past few days. Before I came here I thought nothing of the episode, it was just a cartoon, after all--right?

Wrong.

For those of you who've watched the series, in the first few seasons, one of the characters, Cleveland Brown, was married to Loretta.

In this episode she cheats on him with one of his friends, a ONS if you will. He (Cleveland) does everything a BH with a kid is not supposed to do; he apologizes for the affair as if he is responsible for it, he leaves the home, and even when TOLD who she had an affair with, doesn't seem too fazed by it. He folds completely.

Of course this changes later on, he grows a spine because Loretta disappears from the house of her own accord and is never seen again. When he gets his own show, his son goes with him, from Rhode Island clear to Virginia--so it is safe to assume he won full custody, else why would he have been allowed to move so far?

I think he could be a good example to BHs as to what they should NOT do (violence included) and later on, what they should do.

The part I despise is the part where he continues to be friends with Quagmire. How do you continue to be friends with a man who slept with your wife?

I know it's only a cartoon but since you all have instilled some serious marital respect in me, I'm looking at everything, even cartoons, differently.

Thoughts?

I know what you mean. Right after I came here, I commented about how almost every show I watched had something to do with adultery and it wasn't always bad. Did you watch the Seinfeld episode with George sleeping with a married woman?

I used to watch the show Reba. That is SICK. That is exactly what WS's think their lives would become.

Adultery is a wide spread thing and I understand how sitcoms are portraying some part of reality. I still don't like it.

Real housewives of Orange County, thats a bad one to.

I agree, we need more shows that demonstrate the disastrous consequences of affairs...can we say Fatal Attraction???

I'm sure we could reel off a boatload of shows/movies that glamourize adultery.

Matter of fact. Meander around the dial today/this evening. See how long it take YOU to get the message......

And no, I'm not talkin' about camping on HGTV or one of the music channels. Go to channels with movies, dramas, or comedy shows.

Sad commentary on reality.....

TB

One thing that has offended me over the years is the fact that a couple of my WH's friends propositioned me, and it didn't seem to bother him one bit! He stayed friends with them! He said that there was nothing to worry about because I turned them down and he trusted me. Did he not get that they disrepected HIM?

He apparently felt as Cleveland did, that "he's my friend, he'd never ACTUALLY get with my wife."

Lady_C - no doubt your WH and his pals had the same philosophy when it came to his *their* wives.

It's not just TV shows. Books, movies and of course the worst offender..a website that promotes hookups between married people. Ashley Madison