NEW YORK — Eliot Spitzer may have topped Jim McGreevey in terms of sex scandal sordidness. But now, as the divorce goes to court, Dina McGreevey is in a very different situation from her fellow former first lady Silda Spitzer. “I was essentially in the dark,” she told the New York Times, “…he never told me he was gay.”

But some are saying she knew more than she’s letting on, because the New Jersey press has reported three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife. And if that’s true, her critics say Dina had to know her husband was gay.

Well, it’s true that most political wives are savvier than they present themselves to be. Who knows, for example, what Mrs. Spitzer knew about her husband’s sexual habits? But Dina McGreevey is a different sort of political wife. One who’s fortunes are more tethered to her ex-husband than Silda Spitzer’s will ever be because Dina never graduated from college. And now she’s forced to tell her story to Oprah and to tell-all in print. Silda’s Harvard law degree is a far more dignified contingency plan.

So listen up, women: get a degree, a career, a job. As much as you love your husband, you may just want something else to fall back on. That way his bad behavior won’t be the Last Word on your future.

–Jami Floyd, In Session anchor