The Scarlet Edit: Infidelity, Divorce, Starting Over.29 Touko

Why Do Women Marry Men They Don't Love? The Vrabel & Russini Story

I've been watching the Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini story unfold for a few weeks, and the more I dug in, the more it stopped being about an affair and started being about something else entirely. A bar in New York in 2020. A boat in Tennessee in 2021 with her pregnant and just the two of them on the water. A casino in Mississippi weeks after he got fired. An adults-only resort in Sedona this spring. Six years of "coincidences." They've denied all of it.

But the part that actually got me wasn't the timeline. It was her own words. Resurfaced clips of her on national TV calling her husband average. Joking she'd be divorced by Christmas. Telling a story about interviewing Jimmy Garoppolo the night before her wedding and calling it "a sign." She said she stayed skeptical about her own husband, in her words, until she met him at the altar.

So I had to ask the question nobody else covering this is asking. Why was she getting married in the first place? And it opens up something so many of us have lived through — women who married men they weren't sure about because they were worried about time, worried about starting over, worried about being alone. I know five women who've admitted some version of this to me. I'm betting you do too.

This is a bonus episode and I am not pretending I know what's true between these two people. I'm just talking about the question their story raises for the rest of us. Why do women marry men they don't actually want to marry — and what does that cost down the line?

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