Divorcebusting.com Forums Open Forums Midlife Crisis well lookie at gov Sanford......can you say MLC???

The day the story aired H and I were watching the news together when the story came on. I sat there frozen, sickened by it all. I could feel H's eyes on me. Neither one of us said a word.

The next night while we were watching the news, the story came on again. This time H had the remote and switched the channel IMMEDIATELY.

I'm disgusted with the behaviour of so many of these politicians. I really admire the way Mrs. Sanford has handled everything. I feel so sorry for her and her boys, having to handle all this in the public eye.

Here is a link to an article that someone posted on the Infidelity forum. It made my blood boil how the author trivializes M.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/mark-sanford----resign-al_b_220942.html

When push comes to shove and reality intrudes, making us all glad we do not have to read gushy references to bad literature, the safe little cocoon in which this perfect love existed disappeared, and they are just another cliche, just another powerful and entitled middle-aged man who thinks he deserves better.

We all think our love is more special and better than anyone else's, esp. in the infatuation phase.

So maybe he will marry her. Maybe my H will marry his girl child. Fact of the matter is that nobody can live up to such fantastic expectations forever.

I don't think reality has hit my H hard enough yet. The girl child seems to have done a pretty good manipulative job so far. Her self-centeredness will come out eventually. I think it has, somewhat, but not enough, evidently.

You know the other notable MLC on legs? Mel Gibson ...

What is his story? Married for over 30 years, 7 children, at least one of them still at school ...

All that stuff about how Catholic he is and how the Church doesn't support divorce etc etc etc ...

His poor wife. I really really feel sad for her, and she's been going through this for several years before she filed at Easter ..

It's everywhere.

Check this out:
http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/849427.html
Seems to support the premise of this thread! Interesting how they talk about Sanford being delusional, narcissistic, acting like a drug addict regarding OW...gee, have any of us heard anything like this before??!

And yeah, I thought the same thing about Mel Gibson. And his OW is, what, 20 years younger than he is, and didn't they announce that OW was pregnant a couple of weeks after Mel's W filed for D?

My H is a cradle Catholic. He felt strongly that he was meant to be a "bridge" between Catholic and Protestant, what with our religously mixed M (I'm a dedicated Protestant) giving him a lot of opportunities to interact with both. He was in Catholic music ministry for 10 years after we got M--every Saturday night for a decade he was playing his guitar for Mass, in addition to rehearsals--then his mother got Alzheimer's and he started having issues with God, so he went from being a faithful Catholic Christian, both in public and in private, to being an obligatory-Christmas-and-Easter church attender...not to mention the broken commandments and vows and total change in attitude about the permanence of M. Gotta wonder what happened there. It's easier to believe that some sort of MLC aliens took over his brain than that this is the real person who was hidden behind the "nice guy" mask for the first fifteen years I knew him. <sigh>

Peace,
Dawn