As he continues his attempts at a redemption tour, Eliot Spitzer recently opined on what love is — drifting into slightly uncomfortable personal territory.
“It’s one of these feelings that you sense when you meet somebody and there is a response that is different and is unique, and is palpable. And it then changes over time,” Spitzer, who resigned the governor’s seat in 2008 after he was snared as a client of a high-priced call girl ring, said in a wide-ranging interview posted on the Web site bigthink.com.
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“In other words, the sort of exaltation of first meeting and falling in love is, I think everybody would admit, is different than the feelings that you might have after 25 years,” he said, laughing as he added, “When my wife is watching this, she may say, ‘What are you talking about?’ But it is.”
In awkwardly parsed words, he went on, “After 25 years, it becomes almost a dependence. And a sense of knowing somebody so well that you have merged as personalities, and know each other’s thoughts and there’s a comfort that is there, which is part of it, and equally important.”
His wife, Silda, has stuck by his side and several sources say she believes he was driven out of office unfairly.
Another revelation on his private life was tucked into the interview – the black socks? Not so much.
Reports ran wild that Spitzer liked to have sex with his black dress socks on, as details of the high-priced call girl scandal that sank his governship spread in 2008.
It had been assumed as gospel, but Big Think asked on point: Was it true about the socks?
“No,” he replied simply.
For the record, when asked if he plans to return to public office, he demurred, saying only that all of his public musings are “not part of some scheduled return to anything, but I’ve enjoyed it.”
See video of Spitzer’s interview here.