Italian Man, 99, Divorcing Wife of 77 Years Over 60-Year-Old Affair

really? he’s probably so senile he’ll forget tomorrow…

So ridiculous!!! I would had agreed with him… but after 77 years of marriage???? Really!!!????
Please!!!!!

THIS IS SO SAD , HE DOESN’T HAVE A HEART … AND I’M SURE IF SHE’D SEARCH AROUND SHE’D FIND SOME EVIDENCE OF OLD SHYT THAT HE HAS DONE … I DON’T UNDERSTAND HIS POINT AT THIS STAGE OF THIER MARRIAGE .

To each their own.

Hay ladies I’m back on the Market

I wonder if he’s excited to be “back in the game” now, hitting all the local night clubs on the prowl

Ah yes . . . life begins at 90.

Not that I would recommend divorce after all this time… but why keep those letters floating around if she were so loyal?

I trust that this stern rebuke will be a lesson to the wife in her next marriage! I wonder whether she will go back to her old flame …

Kick her to the curb!

why bother?

Betrayal is betrayal at any age. As someone already said, an affair is the ultimate betrayal. Her case isn’t helped any by the fact that she kept the letters all those 30 years. That doesn’t seem like something a regretfull person would do. Kick her to the curb Antonio! Good luck with how ever much of life you have left.

To Rosa: Hey, Ashton Kutcher is available.

@ Lauren Sher – What are the childrens ages? Was this affair before or after their birth? No need for investigative reporting, just make fun of the old guy- “I guess he never heard the saying Let bygones be bygones” Remember that when your spouse cheats on you! Especially if you find letters, or more likely in modern times, Xrated pictures/video.
-If you mean because it was 60 yrs ago.. Imagine how many opportunities he may have had to stray, but he kept his oath to his wife.His entire life could be different. To look back at that age and have to think- 60 YEARS of your life was wasted! It may seem the wrong way to look at it, from an observers POV, but when it’s your heart and emotions, it’s hard not to.
Remember that he’s been married to her almost twice as long as you’ve been alive!
- I completely agree with everyone about the letters! How many times did she pull them out, to reminisce, throughout their marriage ? Every time she did, would be cheating. No reason she would have them if it was something she was ashamed of, or regret doing.
At least he will die knowing the truth!

Well, at least now she can find herself a hot younger man who will appreciate her. I bet there are a lot of 89 year-olds who would date her.

Maybe, he never did hear of, “let bygones be bygones”. Maybe, she never heard of. “if you play you got to pay”, or, “I can do bad by myself”. Maybe, it is a matter of trust and feeling like a fool wondering what else was going on. And, maybe it is a chance to get rid of a 96-year old headache.

Actually, they were planning on divorcing for quite some time, but wanted to wait until the kids died.

Looks like there are still people around who take the sacrament of marriage seriously.

I hope they have divorce attorneys in heaven. Maybe he just wanted to be single so he could enjoy his 72 virgins without the Mrs. complaining from the next bedroom. Oh to be 100 and free !!!

Then he posted a profile on plenty of fish!

What a numb skull! Let his pride keep him warm.

And people say men are the ones who cheat and break marriage vows? Really! So, she had and affair and hid it, and still pretended to be a faithful wife? That’s what angered the husband—discovering all along she was an insincere spouse. For those of you posting that the 90 year old man will “be on the market again” or “hit the market,” keep in mind that marriage is not just about sex; it’s’ about companionship and relationship based on fidelity. If she had confessed to the husband long ago, things might have been different, but she hid it. Well, ladies, the husband was serious about the marriage, apparently the wife was not.

____”For those of you yammering on and on. about her keeping the letters…did it ever occur to you that maybe they contained a lot of love and praise for her? If her husband was as hard headed, and unforgiving..all those years ago, as he is now…Do you suppose that maybe THAT was what attracted her to the other guy, in the first place? I’m not getting into the morality of the whole thing…but maybe she kept them… to be reminded of the guy who put her on a pedestal..and made her feel special…even if the affair itself…is dead as dust. Have a little empathy.”

POSTED BY: J | DECEMBER 29, 2011, 9:20 PM 9:20 PM____________To the Devil’s Advocate: I’m sure you would be surprised the cheating was not a one time affair. Maybe, she kept those letters to reminisce the differences of the two men’s physical prowess. What does that say about her? The “pedestal” thing you are talking about might just be the men’s “staying power.” Yes, there are certain things women don’t forget.

Now he can put on his 30′s spats, tophat, pick up his cane and hit the local nursing homes for some wrinkled hotties.
Imagines, al the sex you might be able to remember and no paternity suit.

If you’ve not actually been in this kind of situation, you really don’t know what you’re talking about. It may seem to many of us that, “…geez, it was 60 years ago… what’s the point when you’re 99… can’t he forgive?…” – but you really don’t know what goes thru a man (or woman’s) mind when faced with this. Sure, it happened 60 years ago – but it’s brand spanking new fresh news to him – and the fact that it happened so long ago doesn’t actually help – it renders the time between the affair & present day null & void… in HIS mind, he was played for the fool – living a lie – and all those precious moments now lay in ruin. And because it’s been SO much time – this man’s very life, nearly his very existence was stolen from him – by his own closest & most cherished person in this world… and some strange man that he’ll never be able to confront who ravaged his wanting wife & mother of his children over & over again behind his back. What’s more… he may NOW even question the paternity of 1 or more of his own children! And yes… certainly she may have forgotten where she’d stowed away those letters after a while – but there were most assuredly months – years that went by that she knew perfectly well – and felt strongly enough to guard her keepsake – don’t think for a second he’s not thought about that matter. So yes, this poor sorry – and likely once proud man is now doing the only thing he feels he can in order to gain some kind of control over the loss of his wife, his family – his very time spent on this earth… in the final days of his soon to be expired life – he’s ensuring that he’ll not die married to the woman who destroyed him in the end… and I can’t say as I blame him one bit. So let this be a warning to all what can happen when you take that fateful plunge into infidelity – for it can have ramificaitons of incalculable depth & pain to those you love most dearly…

If the man is divorcing her now over this saying had she told him long ago it might have turned out differently is stretching it.

Moron…absolute moron…

I would have done the same thing.

Typical anti-male angled story. Figures. ABC is just not a great news source.

I wonder people would make the same statements if the sexes were reversed in this story.

She should have thrown the letters away. Guess the boyfriend was her true love. How sad for the husband to know he was never her true love. He wasted all those years. Lying and cheating never pays.

Not easy to live with sixty years of lies, as many of you – including the glib article author – would have realized more readily if it was a woman who had discovered her husband’s affair.

60 years of a false idea of the world and his relationship.

Of course he’s angry.

So would any woman be. The more time you’ve wasted, the more angry you’ll be.

Perhaps he does not want her pretending to weep at his funeral.

Good call.

My now ex had an affair with a married woman in 2009. We divorced over it this year. It was not the affair. He said he barely remembered the whole thing. She was just there. She was trying to find a way out of her marriage and apparently thought ending mine was key. So he took her up on the offer and said it meant nothing but the ease of availability and that he didn’t think she would “tell”. I actually believe that. But the 18 months of lying about it was what ended the marriage. I knew (she told me) but he just kept denying even when I made it clear I would work to forgive if he only told me the truth. He lied. There was no longer trust and certainly no respect. Why stay in a marriage like that. So I don’t know the whole backstory here. How many times had this man asked her? How many times did she lie? And how many other affairs he suspected? I’d have to know more before I judged him as heartless. Being faithful to someone you find out is deceiving you isn’t something it’s easy to just shrug off….ESPECIALLY if he honored their marriage for all those many years.

“(Guess he never heard of “let bygones be bygones.”) ”

Wow I hope this article was in the opinion section!

Clearly not, if he has the sense to dump the liar.

If he is that much more concerned about his pride than he is his wife and their marriage, then she is better off without him. Hope she finds herself a nice young stud who appreciates her and I hope the (ex)husband dies alone and lonely.

marriage was establish by someone with moral principles and standars. whoever gets married without having developed these moral principles will always fail to accomplish hapiness. because happiness is based on the principle of giving, male or female will never produce love or give it ,if they try with their own

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 . peoples love or what they claim it is , is nothing but greed,selfishness based on the lies society/media has fed their brain and heart with. if all your expectations in life are about receiving from someone else and not giving ,you do not know what love is and you do not who created you.Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.1 Corinthians 13 :47 . god is love.

I never married and never will.

Unless you have been cheated on you have no idea.
The damage she did to this man.
The minute he found out his entire life became a giant lie.
He was with her and she was not with him.
You guys asking for sympathy for a cheater please.
I sometimes wish laws would allow cheaters to be punished legally because basically she took his life away.

Ah, so if I cheat and I keep it secret long enough, you women criticizing this man say that a woman HAS TO forgive me?

Thanks for that.

To those who say he is heartless, unfeeling and unforgiving — He has a heart. He feels (beyond what any of us have ever felt.) Now can’t you forgive him?

yeah because cheating is no big deal and we should just let it be a “by-gone” maybe its cool for you lady but if im being faithful i would expect my partner to be to. good for him.