Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife said her husband, ever the man of ideas, proposed an open marriage as a solution to his six-year affair with Calista.
He suggested that his wife and his mistress share him. From each according to her ability, to each according to his need.
Marianne Gingrich told the story to ABC News:
In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.
She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.
“And I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do,’” Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”
Marianne described her “shock” at Gingrich’s behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington.”
“He always called me at night,” she recalled, “and always ended with ‘I love you.’ Well, she was listening.”
All this happened, she said, during the same time Gingrich condemned President Bill Clinton for his lack of moral leadership.
Unaccountably, Marianne didn’t jump at the chance to share Newt, even though Calista was cool with it. What a reactionary!
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