John and Rielle , No Longer a Couple

Rielle Hunter revealed that she and John Edwards split last week, although she still considers them a family. Quinn, Hunter's out-of-wedlock daughter, is the real loser in all of this drama. She has a mother who made no qualms about going after a married man, telling him when they met, "You're hot!" Her father is a gutless wonder who denied his relationship with Hunter and kept her hidden through much of her pregnancy.

Hunter has a penchant for the glare of the public spotlight and the media is complicit in giving her the stage. Her just-released memoir serves as the reason to interview her, thus giving her frequent on-air exposure. Ham and Wry believes viewers would be better served without the generous dishing out of time devoted to her story. Those who choose to buy her book will most likely do so out of prurient interest because it can't possibly have literary value. This blogger sincerely hopes that it flops.

Hunter vows that she still loves Edwards. Ham on Wry questions what she means by that term. From her statements, it seems she had more of a chemical reaction that eventually led to conceiving Quinn. She resents the moniker "home wrecker", yet she has certainly earned the title. To have carried on with Edwards during his wife Elizabeth's battle with cancer and eventual death ranks on the border of evil. Hunter must learn that you can't build a relationship on a foundation of deceit. Poor Quinn!