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Well I don't know. I don't think I could sympathize with the guy at all. It's not like he didn't have it all. He just wanted to have his cake, and eat it too. He got caught.
Not to say that I sympathize with her necessarily, though I am more inclined to side with someone who is honest that with someone who was deceitful like her husband. To judge whether she should get half of his assets, I'd have to know more. How long were they together? How important has she been to his success? Things like that. That is what a judge will be looking at.
I don't care if half is a gazillion dollars. If she was instrumental enough, she should get it. Why should he get away scot free and leave her hanging with kids to raise? Would you care what the public thought, or would you get angry? I think in this situation, with all the context...I'd get angry.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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