Oprah Interviews Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards says she wanted to know the details of her husband's affair.
Like many women in her situation, Elizabeth says she wanted to know the details of her husband's affair. "I'm a puzzle-doer," she says. "I had pieces of the puzzle, and I felt like it was going to make sense if I had all the pieces."

Oprah: Is the first thing you wanted to know is, "Do you love her?"

Elizabeth: I'm sure that I asked that, but it seemed impossible to me, and I think, impossible to him. This is a person very, very different from me and really very different from him.

To this day, Elizabeth says she and John don't really know why he cheated. "He really has tried, I think, to figure it out, and to talk to people and try to work that out, but I don't think he really knows," she says. "I mean, it was opportunity and didn't seem like there were any consequences."
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