winter upset over affair
Back in April, meteorologist John Winter killed himself, and many wanted to know why. According to reports, he was very distraught over an extramarital affair he had. He “felt he was an embarrassment and that his wife would not forgive him.”
I still have difficulty understanding the end result.
And I can’t even imagine how this affects those involved.
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May 30th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Such a sad outcome for such a human mistake. The affair, however, didn’t cause him to take his own life. The disease of depression did that. It is insidious and hateful and transforms the most human of issues into seemingly unscalable walls. As someone who was diagnosed many years ago with a long term depressive condition, I know that this misunderstood illness can be extremely complex. The public personna can appear so happy and self-assured while the private personna is suffering so much. The stigma of this hidden disease that is often perceived as “weakness” holds so many back from getting appropriate treatment, sometimes with such tragic outcomes as we see in this instance.
My heart goes out to John’s family and friend and I hope he is now at peace.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Roni is right on. Simple statistics show that the ratio of those who have affairs compared to those who commit suicide would indicate that suicide is not the choice of most who stray from their commitments.
And it’s really unfortunate that the whole affair was revealed. It does nothing to enlighten the general public, except to indulge our twisted need for gossip.
As one who lost a faithful partner and still struggles with anger in grief, I can’t imagine the wrenching agony that John Winter’s wife is feeling. God bless her. And may the news media please let this go — it serves no one and hurts many.
May 31st, 2007 at 7:37 am
the cover of tbt yesterday was absolutely disgusting. i’m not going to reiterate it here. just awful.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
dcdave, you are right. it was worse than reading a supermarket rag. i think they’re doing it on purpose so we’ll let our papers go without a whisper. don’t fall for it. we can fix them but we’d have a hell of a time getting them back fi they went.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Roni’s words were right on the money. Depression is a serious disease and the social stigma around it causes so many sufferers to go untreated. What a shame.
Even more shameful is for media like the tbt to explore this further with details that are very personal and irrelevant to those not involved. They made it into gossip and it’s a disrespect to his family, really.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:32 pm
oh boo hoo, I’m depressed, so I’ll have an affair?!?! I have zero tolerance or respect for people who cheat. There is no reason for that. Yes, we are all human and face temptation, but we also have this little voice in our heads that tell’s us right or wrong. It’s just a matter of staying on track. If things are that bad, get a divorce. While this incident was most unfortunate, mental illness or not, I would think cheating causes enough guilt to make one want to commit suicide. I know of the exact same thing which happened to others…