We're All Battered Spouses

I have a thought…This is thought reaches cross genders (male/female)…This thought does not condone, support or think spousal abuse is cool on any level…it’s an analogy , so take it for what it’s worth….

Imagine your spouse (G.W. Bush) came home everyday and slapped the shyt out of you everyday for 4 years.
Everyday your spouse comes home, your spouse slaps the all out shyt out of you.
There are days when your spouse doesn’t slap you, but all in all your spouse treats you and your new born child foul.
Not only does your spouse slap the shyt out of you, he’s began a beef with the neighbor (Iraq).
The beef with the neighbor is over a misunderstanding he had with the neighbor.
The neighbor wasn’t at the crux of the beef from the onset, but was perceived to be down with your spouses real enemy (Taliban/Afghanistan).
Your neighbor is easier to get at because of proximity, and in all honesty doesn’t like your spouse, which makes it justified.
Every night your spouse comes home from work, your spouse throws beer bottles at you neighbors house.
Your spouse comes to blows with your neighbor and your neighbor starts throwing beer bottles at you when your spouse isn’t home.
Your relationship in the neighborhood is looked at with high calamity, yet this is your spouse and you must remain committed.
At the end of your second year marriage, your spouse starts to turn a new heart.
Your spouse starts bringing new gifts home: Cars, plush rings, a fresh new mortgage, ski trips.
He’s gotten real friendly with some corporate players (Wall Street) that are giving him boat loads of cash and credit.
More importantly, when your spouse comes home from work now, your spouse is less apt to slap the shyt out of you.
Furthermore, your spouse has declared a victory (Mission Accomplished) over your neighbor and basks in the glory of his justified battles.
But privately, you remember how many times your spouse came home and slapped the shyt out of you.
You always said that after year 4 of this marriage your were going to take your daughter and leave your spouse if this persists.
One night at the club you meet a really nice person (John Kerry).
This person is the antithesis of your spouse and has really sparked your interest.
This person doesn’t want to harm you in the least.
This person is a little cantankerous and bawdy, but in this person’s true essence, he is learned, kind, measured, and decent.
On a professional level, this person takes solace in eliciting several types of opinions before making a decision.
You’re drawn closure to the person you met in the club (John Kerry).
Your spouse eventually finds out about this person and instead of slapping the shyt out of you, makes an intervention of sorts.
Your spouse proposes that your new friend from the club and he sit down and offer their best qualities and let you decide who you like.
Your spouse and your new friend essentially give you the power to select who your would like to spend your life with.
At the end of the day, you decide that you have a child with your spouse and he quelled the beef with the neighbor, thus you’ll remain with your spouse.
Your spouse is ecstatic.
The next day at work your spouse calls you to notify you of a great surprise your spouse has gotten you.
When your spouse comes home, to your surprise there’s a sporty Jaguar coup pulling into the driveway.
Your spouse has a pair of Harry Winston diamond studs as a surprise as well.
You marvel at the Jag and the diamonds.
As soon as your spouse gains comfort in the home it happens.
Your spouse all out slaps the living shyt out of you.
Your spouse then goes out and regains the beef with your neighbor, concentrating more efforts to crush him.
The slapping continues at a feverish pace and so does the beef with the neighbor.
The neighbor’s next door neighbor (Iran) takes offense to the constant beef with his neighbor and approaches your spouse about it.
With out warning your spouse crushes a beer bottle over your neighbor’s neighbor head and dares him to say something.
Now your spouse has constant beef with your two neighbors.
Your spouse fights with both of them nightly and still makes time to tell you everything is cool, after slapping the shyt out of you.
Your other next door neighbor on the left hand side (John McCain) starts to like how your neighbor is doing things, though he may not 100% agree w/ your spouse.
Your other neighbor and your spouse had a little competition for you 8 years ago but that’s ancient history.
Toward your 8 year anniversary w/ your spouse, before you can even say anything, your spouse lets you know he’s leaving you.
Your spouse informs you that all the fine things he bought you are really in your name and those corporate friends (Wall Street) of his are going broke.
Your spouse has thrown 700k (Bail Out) worth of debt on you.
Your spouse is on cruise control now, with no debt, and or shame, your spouse is a walking beat down machine.
Your spouse has made a alliance with your left hand neighbor to take some of the pressure off of his flawed reputation in the neighborhood.
Your neighbor to the left goes and gets smokes, beer, and movies from Blockbuster for your spouse.
You now feel the ultimate betrayal.
On the way home from the gym, you meet a dashing person with their life together (Barack Obama).
This person is caring, kind, articulate, passionate, informed, tempered, and most important genuine.
This person doesn’t pretend to know everything, but knows enough to consult informed people for advisement.
This person is what you have been seeking, but more importantly, is what you and your 4 year old daughter needs.
Your spouse decides to leave.
Your spouse leaves as a failed parent and spouse, and doesn’t really care.
The beef with the neighbor is still going, but your spouse is out.
The neighbor to the left wants to get with you.
Even though the neighbor to the left was down with your spouse and admired how your spouse got down, your neighbor believes you guys should be together.
The man at the gym enlightens people on a day to day level and appears on all facets to have a goodness to him that you have never encountered.
Both the neighbor to the left (John McCain) and the person from the gym (Barack Obama) would like you to chose to marry them.
What do you do?