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As I watched I learned the story of how she began her now great celeb. life. Her "Mother and Sons" stories were very heart warming. As a single mother I would allow myself to dream her dream but then be stopped as I faced the reality that my two children one girl and one boy were both physically handicapped so how and what she did was not something that was possible for us.
I would think about what a really STRONG woman she must have been back then and how that translated to her present life. Then one day she told the story of how she had an affair with a "married" man for ten years....and how her two boys were aware of it and instructed never to tell anyone about the affair. I don't know exactly what age her boys were but from the facts in the story they seemed to be very young. Ever since I heard that story my opinion of her changed in a flash.
I struggle as a single mother with two handicapped children who got divorced after learning my then husband was having an affair outside of our marriage. The female he got involved with had just been rejected by her "first" married man. After a ten year affair he returned to his wife and children and has remained faithful to his marriage vows since. It was at that time my now ex husband met this woman. After just being turned away by the 'first' married man I am confident this woman knew exactly what 'to do' and what 'not to do' if she was to achieve a different outcome.
Long story short,this woman followed up on NOT making the same mistakes with my then husband. The result was after a twenty five year marriage we got a divorce. He went on with the 'other woman' to live the great life of a single man with a great income and I began the struggle of being a single mother with two handicapped children.
What does this have to do with Paula Deen....oh lots...as I hear her make statements about her struggle as a single mother and how God "has blessed her" now with all that she has achieved I can't hear her name or see her picture without thinking about her fame. She had made a statement concerning her affair with the point being ..she needed 'it' at that time...Well, if the married man was what 'she needed' I wonder what she has now done to "repay" the wife of the married man she had an affair with for ten years?
All I have for her now is pure and out right "disgust" and as for her to statement "God has blessed me" it really calls into question God or being blessed. It really doesn't matter if she regrets the affair what matters is she did have the affair with a married man. Certainly, if she is greatful to God for the blessings she has now there must be a way she could do something for the wife of the man she had the affair with for ten years. Not knowing all of the details makes it impossible for me to offer a suggestion as to what that should be but there must be something she can and should do....Perhaps she already has done something.
It is now impossible for me to watch Paula Deen without thinking of the wife of the married man. Does her story and climb to fame tell me and or any other single mother out there who struggles day to day with normal or handicapped children ..we too will be "Blessed by God" if we go out in the world and just because we may need a man in our lives find a married man and have an affair for ten years? I have never liked the pharase "blessed by God" due to the fact for every action,that being blessed, there is an equal an opposite reaction, that 'being damned by God' , as the wife of the married man was due to the needs of Paula..
Above all else, I am disappointed in the true character values Paula has shown she lacks.
after a ten year affair