How do you solve a problem like Maria?? Well, for one - don't fall in Love with Her!!!
Mark Sanford is currently out of town (but in country), but this time, he is with Jenny, his wife of 20 years. The 2 will be absent for the rest of the week - to mend and reconcile their marriage!
Gov. Mark Sanford headed out of state for personal time with his wife, as the two try to reconcile, and skipped a meeting with a top economic adviser ahead of what is expected to be more bad economic news, including rising unemployment. A spokesman for Mr. Sanford, Joel Sawyer, refused to say where the Sanfords were going or how they were getting there, but said they would not be traveling with their four sons. Mr. Sanford is in the midst of trying to reconcile with his wife, Jenny Sanford, after a tearful confession of an affair with an Argentine woman, María Belén Chapur. Mr. Sawyer said meetings skipped this week would be rescheduled. LinkJenny must be a dutiful politician's wife, to agree to spend time with her cheating husband. She has stated that she can forgive his extramarital affair but she cannot condone it. Well, Mark Sanford's action to fly down to Argentina and meet his mistress certainly says alot about him wanting to end his affair and fix his marriage.
Everyone had read the personal emails that were released to the Associated Press, they detailed his love and strong connection with his mistress, Maria. Link
E-mails from Sanford, 49, to Chapur published last month by The State newspaper revealed the governor wrote in depth and in detail, sometimes erotically, about his feelings for her and their trysts. The e-mails were published the same day Sanford tearfully confessed to the affair at a news conference following his six-day unexplained disappearance from the state, when he was in Argentina with Chapur.Yes - these emails are very damaging to his marriage.
While he rambled in the notes to Chapur, most of the communication to his staff was brief, at best.
For instance, state Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor in March asked whether a water and sewer project serving a handful of families and a top health threat for regulators should be approved. Sanford's reply: "Let's not approve."
He scolded a staffer who prepared a daily rundown of news reports. "I need the same format every time. Synopsis first. Then articles. Who wrote article too," Sanford wrote in December.
In contrast, one of his personal e-mails to Chapur went: "I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself ..."
The e-mails also indicate Sanford could stay in touch while out of the country. In July 2008, while on a trip to Nepal with his family, he asked a staffer to check with a hotel because one of his four sons had left his "blankie bear" behind.
However, when he disappeared to see Chapur last month, records showed his staff scrambled to get in touch with him and he couldn't immediately be reached.
The governor's private schedule over the past seven years also was released. The calendar was a mixed bag of personal and professional details. Sometimes the memo-like rundown told the governor exactly what to wear (very old clothes for a mud run and khakis and a button down to tour storm damage), while other times the schedules were nearly blank, saying: "Personal Time."
The itineraries reminded the governor of his four sons' birthdays and his wedding anniversary to his wife of 20 years. But dates where he rendezvoused with his mistress were noticeably scant of details.
Why would wife Jenny contemplate to stay with her husband after reading these emails and knowing that his heart is for someone else?
Maybe for the children? Maybe for the state that he governs?
But with everything out in the open, I would be surprised if I hear the 2 has reconciled and will continue on with their marriage.
I feel this little retreat they are taking is more for the public than it is for their marriage.
America gravitates to a scandalous trainwreck! But America is equally eager and proud to want to see a happy story ending!
We'll just have to wait and see if the Big Legal D will head down their way!
