The Clintons Nearly Divorced in 1989? And Bill Needed “Couples Therapy” With His Chief of Staff?

The Hillary books, continued…

The women who also figured in Bill Clinton’s life in Arkansas make a return appearance in the book, most notably Marilyn Jo Jenkins, a power company executive he fell in love with and almost left his wife over, according to Bernstein. Jenkins has been linked to Clinton before — she was spirited into the governor’s mansion at 5:15 a.m. for a final, furtive meeting with him the day he left for Washington to assume the presidency — but Bernstein’s account makes clear her pivotal role.
Bill Clinton wanted to divorce his wife to be with Jenkins in 1989, Bernstein reports, but Hillary Clinton refused. “There are worse things than infidelity,” she told Betsey Wright, the governor’s chief of staff. The crisis frayed Wright’s relationship with Bill Clinton too, and she told Bernstein that she arranged for the two of them, Wright and Clinton, to see a therapist together.

Man… you hear a story like that, and you just want to keep a safe distance from that marriage. How many guys need “couples therapy” with their chief of staff?
In a lot of these cases, staying together for the sake of the child is the honorable course of action, putting the best interests of others ahead of your own. But one can’t help but wonder whether Hillary would have been better off without him at some point…