Servicing the Secret Service

I guarantee right now that those agents caught in the Secret Service scandal are deyning, denying, denying to their wives about their involvement.  "It was the other guys,"  "I tried to stop them," et cetera.  Yeah, right.

And their wives, in turn, are struggling to believe them.  Not so much for their men's sake, but for their own and their familys' sakes.  That little voice inside a woman's head that knows the man cheated shouts, "Don't listen to him!"  But then the other voices start in, drowning out the first, telling her that divorce will be ugly and that maybe he didn't cheat.

Of course, the agent is there, too, trying to tell the wife she's crazy and that the news is crazy and the world is crazy.  And that he is innocent.  

Most of us have been there at one time or another in our lives.  We all know friends who have been there, as well.  Someone cheats on us and then tries to convince us we are imagining things -- of course, it's typically not this high profile. What I want to know is why in addition to cheating on a woman, a man must try to convince her she's crazy when he gets caught?  If he's unhappy enough to cheat, then leave.  If he gets caught, then admit it and let everyone move on. 

Simple.