I've shared a bit of my personal story here on various occasions, but when I was 24, I got pregnant with my first child. I was over the moon. My husband and I had been married for almost two years, and our child was planned. Things went well until I started developing very high blood pressure around 12 weeks into my pregnancy. I had to take blood pressure medication, but the one that was safe for pregnancy was not kind to my body or my hormones. I was sad, gaining lots of weight, and generally not a joy to be around.
Looking back, I recognize my husband never would have been a supportive partner or father. I was trying to make him something he had no desire to be. Long story short, he started an affair with a woman at his office, and by the end of my pregnancy I suspected it. When our son was about 8 weeks old, I found a letter she had written him in his vehicle. We tried counseling, but he never really stopped seeing her. By the time my son was 7 months old, we were divorcing and he moved in with her. They eventually married and divorced, and he's now on marriage number four. It is what it is.
I say all of this to make it clear that I had my own story coloring how I watched the video Graham Platner's wife released yesterday. Women who have never been cheated on and made to feel worthless during pregnancy or infertility may not feel it as deeply as I did. For those who missed it, here is her statement.
A message from my wife Amy: pic.twitter.com/dbDqjssevp
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) May 30, 2026
Most people see a woman standing behind her man. I see a woman who is deeply hurt, with no light left in her eyes. I see a woman desperately trying to hold her marriage together and convince herself that her husband will eventually grow up and change. Spoiler alert: He won’t. He’s 41. His frontal lobe is fully developed. This is the best she’s ever going to get. Every time she lets him get away with nonsense, he’ll push it further and do it harder because he knows there are no consequences. After all, he sent her out to take the heat for him.
She’s nearing the age where her biological clock is winding down. She’s struggling with fertility issues. In a small state like Maine, she knows Platner’s family has generational wealth that would provide well for a child if she can eventually have one. So she’s decided he’s the best she can get. That’s sad. I wish she held herself in higher regard, but she doesn’t.
Maine voters, however, should want better for our country. Surely, they can’t believe he’s the best we’ve got to send to DC. If they do, there’s a real crisis of character in Maine.
Maybe letting the Bernie Sanders wing of the party pick candidates isn’t such a great idea. Bernie himself never held a real job until he won elected office in his forties, and he never supported his own child. He lacks character, so of course he thinks Platner is a stand-up guy.
What a shock the Democrats’ senate candidate for Maine is hiding behind his wife, sending her out to address revelations like those reported on by the Daily Wire, that he not only cheated on his wife, but has also been active on a site that hosts child pornography, as well as… https://t.co/P2oUY2I8kx
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) May 31, 2026
I hope she has a friend who can wake her up and snap her out of this. Being alone is so much better than living with a man like this.
