BUT – seriously now, if we do this analysis to their marriage, then, to be fair, don’t we owe it to them and ourselves to do a similar analysis of the marriage of each candidate on both sides, and kind of give a rating or something for how involved we imagine the spouse will be or what kind of influence we’re talking about?

Laughing – just the thought of that! But still – think about it – Rudy Guiliani and Judith Nathan! Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth! (even tho they dropped out)

Anyway – just a thought.

Thanks again for raising this insight.

Re: The Edwards’, you said:

“…except they don’t have that frustrated, angry piece and they don’t live the same life.”

The frustrated, angry piece doesn’t apply to the Peer Marriage paradigm, but to the Traditional. “Living the same life”, otoh, is pretty key to the concept. It’s not the same as enmeshment, but there are similarities.

My gut feeling is that no, the Edwards’ do not have a Peer Marriage. But I don’t know nearly as much about them.

Meanwhile… does it matter about the Clinton’s marital dynamic? I think it matters intensely to some people. Furthermore, if this is their marriage model, Bill Clinton’s goals and aspirations do, in fact, become relevant to the campaign.