well lookie at gov Sanford......can you say MLC???

[Dawn of Hope]

I was glad to see that Jenny Sanford did NOT stand with her H when he was announcing his A publicly. I saw a montage of clips pulled from recent news conferences that showed various politicians announcing/discussing their A's (or other sexual indiscretions) with their W's beside them, and in every case, the W looked like she was barely holding it together. How humiliating for those poor women. Good for Jenny Sanford for stepping away gracefully and letting her H swing in the wind and deal with the fallout on his own.

She is starting to get criticized some by people who are calling her a doormat or an idiot for not just accepting that it's over (the whole soulmate thing) and moving on...but I can't believe those critics have ever been through anything like this, so they really have no idea what they are talking about. I think she is doing about as well with her sitch as anyone can possibly be expected to, trying to navigate between a rock and a hard place and not get smashed on either side. Good for Jenny Sanford! She will be able to hold her head up for the way she is turning lemons into lemonade. He is going to be paying the piper for a long time.

BT, I found your story interesting. My H had a friend (about 30 years old at the time) who suddenly ditched her H of 5 years for a man almost 20 years older, who had been M for 20 years or so; they both D'd their spouses so fast it would make your head spin, and last I heard they were living together in her condo (she had refinanced to get her H off the mortgage and OM on, so there was a financial tie) and planning to get M. My H spent a lot of time rolling his eyes over his friend's insane behavior (even though he wasn't a big fan of her H) and trying to convince her she was making a big mistake. Then, less than a year after that sitch began...my H was embroiled in almost the same sitch that he had been ranting about his friend being in...adulterous A with a big age gap (younger woman, older man), financial ties with OP, spouse (that would be me) was suddenly a useless burden. Soooo many times I wanted to call him on repeating the soap-opera BS that he criticized his friend for...but, being a good little DBer, I never said a word about it. I am sure he would come up with some explanation of why his sitch is entirely different (riiiiiiight)! MLC and logic...two great tastes...that don't go together!

Peace,
Dawn