Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
Timing truly is everything and sometimes — when it comes to love — the timing is just, well, wrong.
Or is it?
A New York couple is causing quite a brouhaha after their wedding profile ran in the New York Times’ Vows section this weekend. Why the controversy? The couple — a New York City television reporter and a high-powered ad executive — told the paper how their love blossomed while they were each married to someone else.
That’s right. They were each in long-term marriages, and each have children. In fact, it was the children who brought them together, sort of. You see, Riddell and Partilla met at their kids’ school. So, while the other mommies and daddies are having parent teacher conferences, it seems Riddell and Partilla may have been having a little, um, conference of their own.
The two — who, along with their spouses, were good friends before romance blossomed. That’s right, the four of them had dinners together, attended parties and hit the road for family vacations, along with their children.
They insist that the relationship was platonic, at first, yet admit to being instantly struck by one another. Eventually, they decided to leave their respective spouses — and, in turn, their children — to become an official couple.
The buzz on the ‘net is that she’s an, um, selfish individual (hey, this is a family newspaper, I need to keep it clean), and he isn’t seen as much better. But, they are in love and don’t seem to care much what the public thinks — which is fair, they shouldn’t.
What I wonder, though, is what their children think. Oh, that, and if the jilted exes can maybe find love with one another. Heck, we know they have at least once thing in common …
All last week (and this weekend) the entertainment shows were promoting a “big reveal” coming Monday from Oprah. The TV mogul’s people promised a big surprise family reunion and, as is the case with anything Oprah does, people paid attention.
