![“The Good Wife was always meant to be a show about ‘politics’ and how it wasn’t just something that happens in Washington, in the State House, in a campaign office. It happens everywhere: among co-workers, friends, enemies, companions, spouses. And our main character, the wronged spouse, came to realize that. […] The triumph of our betrayed character was not in forgiving. It was deciding not to retreat into her victimhood. If she were ever going to suffer from any mistakes again, they were going to be her mistakes and not her husband’s. In the end, to forgive or not to forgive seems like half the equation. The more important half is making forgiveness irrelevant.” — Michelle and Robert King](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02j5r7cK51qzqlj0o1_500.jpg)
“The Good Wife was always meant to be a show about ‘politics’ and how it wasn’t just something that happens in Washington, in the State House, in a campaign office. It happens everywhere: among co-workers, friends, enemies, companions, spouses. And our main character, the wronged spouse, came to realize that. […] The triumph of our betrayed character was not in forgiving. It was deciding not to retreat into her victimhood. If she were ever going to suffer from any mistakes again, they were going to be her mistakes and not her husband’s. In the end, to forgive or not to forgive seems like half the equation. The more important half is making forgiveness irrelevant.” — Michelle and Robert King
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