The guy said he had met his soul mate. He said he was going to “try” to love his wife again. He arranged for her to find his love letter. She ordered him to end the affair. She ordered him not to see the other woman again. She’s trying to preserve the relationship “for the sake of their sons”.

You can’t tell someone who to love and who not to love. Stuff happens! You can be a good father and still be a divorced husband.

The best thing that Jenny can do if she wants to be with her husband in the future is to let him go. If not, he will pine and embellish in his mind ‘what could have been’.

There are two things that make this more exciting than a 20-year comfortable relationship with kids in the house. 1/THE CHASE and 2/IT IS A CLANDESTINE RELATIONSHIP.

There is that remote chance that she is his “soul-mate”. Chances are, though, that once he can be out openly with his “soul-mate” it will become humdrum and he will once again appreciate the family values.

Personally, I would not want a man to “try” to love me again while he’s aching for his “soul-mate”. I would say ..adios, arrivederci,sayonara, so long, and good bye…don’t let the doorknob hit you where the good Lord split you. Go out in the world and be happy. You only go around once in this life and if you want to do this with “Maria”, go for it. As for me, I’ll be taking care of me and mine!!

After reading this, I will criticize Governor Sanford no more.

Clearly he is suffering from a serious mental illness. What else could explain that? Asking permission…from his wife?

Some early stage schizophrenia?

I agree; I liked it better when the news organizationa kept an arms length away from pols’ private lives, ecxept if the private life was against the law or damaged the pols’ ability to do his job.

The newspaper that received the e-mails several months ago didn’t print them. Sanford’s affair didn’t go public until he stupidly pulled up stakes and fled to another country. Indeed, unless Jenny Sanford had booted him out months ago the story of the affair may never have come to light at all.

This is not a story just about sex. You have to tell a kid to call home if he/she can’t come home by curfew. A grown man should know that disappearing into thin air and leaving his constituents hanging for five days is an immature and bizarre thing to do.

Sexual misconduct is nobody’s business unless it effects the way the person in question fulfills his/her duties in office.

That’s exactly what happened here. The man up and left his family and his constituents and ran off to another country. When he was confronted by a reporter at the Atlanta airport he feigned surprise that his mysterious absence turned into such a big deal. The man has demonstrated that he inhabits a parallel universe. He is beyond irresponsible and careless.

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair.

I’ve commented before on how Sanford’s chief sin was not the affair but the erratic, childish and irresponsible behavior. Leaving your state high and dry is inexcusable. Now this. A man begs his wife to allow him to visit his mistress? Again, this is what kids do when their parents ground them.

He needs to go and work out his issues on his own time.

Every time a Republican politician misbehaves and is found out, FOX drags out a file video of the Bill and Monica hug. No matter how many times this happens, the Democratic party fails to defend the best president the party has had since FDR.

JFK is the one they praise and idolize even though he had many women before and during his presidency. All of the possible scandals which could have been exposed over time, died with him along with any evidence he would have been a great president or even re-elected had he lived.

There is an almost palpable hated of Pres Clinton even among members of his own party and it’s impossible to believe this is based on his infidelity. They never tried to investigate charges GWB had raped one woman and possibly an underage girl. I believe the woman killed herself.

There are highways and airports all across the country named after Reagan and JFK. Bill Clinton was and is still very popular and governed better than either of those two. I’ve never understood this really.

Notice I said nothing about love. Infatuation is a different thing, but when an affair lasts as long as this one apparently did, it is more than simple lust. He is invested in some way with this woman. It may just be an ego thing, but whatever. He went to Argentina even after his wife and the newspapers were aware so he was willing to risk too much and the emotion he displayed in the press conference didn’t seem to be only remorse.

I was giving my opinion on the chances this marriage will end in divorce. It’s sometimes easier to keep a marriage intact when one partner is a serial philanderer since that doesn’t preclude real love for the spouse. Betrayal hurts in all of it’s forms, but only twenty two percent of marriages where infidelity occurs end in divorce so seventy eight percent survive.

Sanford’s wife is an independent, strong woman and how she handles public humiliation will be determined by what she believes is best for her children and herself.

The Lady has CLASS.

C’mon Amy, you don’t think Hillary wasn’t aware of Bill’s philandering ways? Give me a break. Hillary isn’t stupid nor naive. The woman knew what that louse was doing. She’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see it or know about his wandering lust. Please don’t insult her in such a way.

Hillary long ago accepted the fact that her husband couldn’t be satisfied in a minogomous relationship. To live with a man such as Bill Clinton takes an extremely tolerable individual. That’s one of her strengths not weaknesses. Power is an aphrodisiac, something many of us will never know, thank God, but it’s something that absolutely comes with the territory.

Mrs. Sanford simply drew a line in the sand and said don’t go there. She is sticking with her convictions. Applause. But other political wives have come to accept the fact that affairs are simply a part of their lives.

Is this acceptable? Hell no! But it is part and parcel of the sick symptomology that plagues this country’s leadership. Like it or not.

And to be honest I don’t think Jenny is all that suprised he wsn’t hiking in fact I think she knew he wasn’t hiking and refused to cover him. To this day I think it’s really damn comvienct how Sanfords letters popped up so quickly I think our first lady has a lot of hidden spunk. And when you have man with children who are dealing with a new speration and he runs off to have sex with his mistress when he should have been spending father’s day with them, yeah i might send a few letters and the pretend to be suprise when they end up in the State Newspaper. yes I am judging Mark Sanford. He’s a jerk who, next! And no i don’t put stock in feelings. When you have minor children you put them ahead of your gonads which is why i don’t have them. But you also put them ahead of vindictive delight, but i’ll give Jenny a pass on this one.

I’m proud of Mrs. Sanford, she’s not standing by her unfaithful man who refuses to change, she wants to make it work for the kids, but she’s not going to be his door mat either and I’m loving it.

Personally I hope our dear beloved Mark resigns, we can fed ex him to argentina next week if he likes. Cause i’m all for two people who deserve each other being together. let see how deep those feelings are when reality child support and alimony sets in.

“She brings order to his chaos and he brings chaos to her order.”

From everything I have ever read about their relationship from people who knew them best, the Clintons genuinely and passionately care about each other, regardless of Bill’s bad behavior. Neither of them could ever find anyone else that would hold a candle in satisfying the Clintons shared primary passion which is the political mind of the other. When you live and breathe something like politics, that is a huge bond.