"No. What she decides to do with her personal life is of no concern to me." It was half true. He felt jealous at times due to his somewhat possessive nature, but his actions were hardly a response to that problem. "This is me, asking you to have dinner with me in an adult, courtship context, because I think you're attractive and interesting. This is not me asking you out because I intend to abuse my power or want to get back at my wife -- which she is in name only."<br/><br/>"If you need more time to think it over, you can have it. And if you say no here and now, I'm not going to hold it against you. All I ask is that you keep this to yourself for both of our sakes. I doubt you want to be known as the conservative version of Monica Lewinsky, and I hardly want my fake-marriage to be destroyed like Clinton's was."