The National Enquirer has a juicy piece this week about how Elizabeth Edwards is planning a trip to Japan with her husband, John, which of course has his space cadet mistress in a rage. During her media tour promoting the re-release of her book earlier this month, Elizabeth showed how passive aggressive and in denial she is by confirming that she had not yet granted John a divorce because she tells him “Until you want to get married again, I don’t have a need.” She also never questioned John or called him out for cheating on her or carousing in bars. Elizabeth seemed to have an excuse for all of her husband’s lying and bad behavior. When it came to whether John was still seeing the dumbass mistress who fathered his love child, Elizabeth said “I know what John tells me, which is ‘under no circumstances.’ But obviously, I’m the last person in the world who knows the truth about these things.” Give me a break, lady!

Anyway the Enquirer writes that Elizabeth of course wants John back and has planned “sentimental trip” with him to Japan, where she lived for nine years. John is going with her and telling Rielle that it means nothing and that he’s not still sleeping with Elizabeth, just like he tells Elizabeth about Rielle. This of course angers Rielle, who thinks that John is her cosmic soulmate who just happens to have a wife with cancer who is the mother of his four children.

[John Edwards] is accompanying his cancer-stricken wife on a sentimental trip to Japan, and that’s enraged his mistress Rielle Hunter, say insiders.

When the ex-senator informed her of his decision, “she flew into a jealous rage,” a close source told The Enquirer.

“Her first question was, ‘Where will you sleep?’ John assured Rielle that he and Elizabeth would have separate sleeping – but she wasn’t buying it. She doesn’t trust John, and she told him so.”

Despite Elizabeth’s criticism against John [ed note: what criticism?] on TV and in her book, Rielle still thinks she “will try whatever it takes to win John back,” said the source.

Rielle also fears the more time he spends away from her and their 2 year-old daughter Quinn, the more he’ll enjoy his old family life.

“John tried to calm Rielle, telling her he had to go to Japan to help Elizabeth with their children,” said the source. “But Rielle didn’t want to hear anything he had to say.”

Sadly, Elizabeth, 61, is losing her battle with stage 4 breast cancer. She’s traveling to Japan – where she lived for nine years when her dad was a navy pilot – and will visit old friends and special places from her childhood and high school years “before it’s too late,” says the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 26, 2010]

I wonder if Rielle likes how it feels to be the one who can’t trust the man she assumes is her committed partner. Elizabeth is in love with the partner and man that John used to be (or at least the guy she thought he was) and can’t reconcile herself with the man he is today. She sounds desperate to be loved and told Larry King earlier this month that she would probably “live out the rest of my days without someone… Holding me in a passionate way.” Elizabeth added that she gets lots of hugs and affection, but that it’s not the same “That other kind of affection may be behind me… I can’t imagine… circumstances where I would fall in love or that anyone would fall in love with me… And it is hard sometimes to think that that’s a part of my past.” [thanks to mln for the tip]

So Elizabeth is just trying to get her husband to pay attention to her again and to be romantic with her. As much as the guy is a lying, cheating SOB I hope he can show her some of the affection she yearns for. And I hope it really pisses off Rielle.

John Edwards is shown below on 1/16/08. Credit: PRPhotos. Rielle Hunter is shown on Oprah in April.