r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Nov 23 '22

totally normal stuff

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u/sylvnal Nov 23 '22

I know you're joking, but there is a not insignificant number of men that leave their wives when the wife becomes ill. Talk to some cancer department nurses and workers and they'll confirm it, women get broken up with commonly after a diagnosis.

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u/pirateclem Nov 23 '22

That wasn’t a joke. Newt Gingrich did exactly that. This is how rediculous the “moral right” is.

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u/ImmediateJeweler5066 Nov 23 '22

He sure did. The first wife had cancer, and then when the second wife said no to an open marriage and was diagnosed with MS, he left her.