by: Sophia Nelson, BlackDoctor.org

This past weekend was very eventful on the high-profile "Atlanta black marriage" front.

First, we saw GOP presidential hopeful and Georgia native Herman Cain announce on Saturday that he was going to "suspend" his presidential campaign amid serious allegations of sexual harassment, and more critically new allegations that he had engaged in a 13 year long adulterous affair with Atlanta resident Ginger White.

Also in Atlanta this weekend, the Bishop Eddie Long announced he was taking a "sabbatical" from New Birth congregation when news broke that his wife of 21 years, Vanessa Long, has filed for a divorce.

But what makes this weekend more interesting to me, is what we all witnessed from two high-profile black men, and their wives. Both Gloria Cain and Vanessa Long are black women who hail from the "Baby Boom" generation, and both have handled the sexual peccadillo's and improprieties of their husbands in similar and yet, very different manners. The reality is that we have not seen this before in the public arena in the lives of black folks.