How to confront a cheating spouse?
If you found out that your spouse cheated, what is the best way to confront your spouse and their cheating partner?
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ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@Thinkerbell that might be a newer invention than this old song...
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@ThePatientAnarchist
No, General Dan Sickles (who almost lost the battle of Gettysburg for the Union) successfully used it when he shot and killed his wife's lover.
"Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II. He was acquitted after using temporary insanity as a legal defense for the first time in United States history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles
No, General Dan Sickles (who almost lost the battle of Gettysburg for the Union) successfully used it when he shot and killed his wife's lover.
"Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II. He was acquitted after using temporary insanity as a legal defense for the first time in United States history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles
Thrust · 56-60, M
@Thinkerbell Yes but the US pretty much adopted it verbatim. Virtually all of US law (except for Louisiana) was adopted from British common law
Temporary insanity virtually doesn't exist anymore (irresistable impulse re: Bobbitt). You have to be full blown crackers
Temporary insanity virtually doesn't exist anymore (irresistable impulse re: Bobbitt). You have to be full blown crackers
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@ThePatientAnarchist
Actually, the real Frankie got off by pleading self-defense.
"The song was inspired by one or more actual murders. One of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2:00 on the morning of October 15, 1899. Frankie Baker (1876 – 1952),[1] a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen (also known as "Albert") Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly (also known as "Alice Pryor" and no relation to the pioneering reporter who adopted the pseudonym Nellie Bly or the "Nelly Bly" who was the subject of an 1850 song by Stephen Foster), had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.[2][3][4] On trial, Baker claimed that Britt had attacked her with a knife and that she acted in self-defense; she was acquitted and died in a Portland, Oregon mental institution in 1952."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_and_Johnny_(song)
Actually, the real Frankie got off by pleading self-defense.
"The song was inspired by one or more actual murders. One of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2:00 on the morning of October 15, 1899. Frankie Baker (1876 – 1952),[1] a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen (also known as "Albert") Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly (also known as "Alice Pryor" and no relation to the pioneering reporter who adopted the pseudonym Nellie Bly or the "Nelly Bly" who was the subject of an 1850 song by Stephen Foster), had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.[2][3][4] On trial, Baker claimed that Britt had attacked her with a knife and that she acted in self-defense; she was acquitted and died in a Portland, Oregon mental institution in 1952."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_and_Johnny_(song)
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@Thrust @Thinkerbell Regarding the Bobbit case, she didn't actually kill him...
I vaguely remembered the Bobbit case, especially jokes about the name. Looking it up just now in Wikipedia, I find it was more bizarre than I remembered. She cut his penis off while he was asleep, drove away with it, and eventually threw it out the car window because it was difficult to drive while holding a severed penis. It was eventually found after an exhaustive search...
I vaguely remembered the Bobbit case, especially jokes about the name. Looking it up just now in Wikipedia, I find it was more bizarre than I remembered. She cut his penis off while he was asleep, drove away with it, and eventually threw it out the car window because it was difficult to drive while holding a severed penis. It was eventually found after an exhaustive search...
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@Thinkerbell re: "the real Frankie": wow, self-defence and (later) insanity...