dina was there, and i really appreciated it. dina was mad. yeah, she had a right to be mad.because she felt humiliated. yeah, and she had a right to. i was wrong. it's important not only that i recognize the damage to myself but the damage to people that i love. reporter: mcgreevey, a father of two, said he had grappled with his identity for years, was forced into what he called an acceptable reality. the national conversation-- "can't we let the guy be gay? he's married, sure, but he was forced in the closet by an american puritanism." this country--we're still making it very hard for gay people to live out their lives honestly. reporter: still, there is a sense of something unsaid in this discussion, and mcgreevey's words hint at something more. it just seemed hard to believe, and it seemed hard to believe that jim mcgreevey was gonna resign an office that he had spent his whole life trying to get. by falling on his sword for the "gay thing," there was no longer a real reason to pursue investigations. he was on his way out anyway, so what's the point of digging into his as