Jenny Sanford Exclusive: Husband Refused to Be Faithful in Wedding Vows

[The Straight Story]

Jenny Sanford Exclusive: Husband Refused to Be Faithful in Wedding Vows

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford recalls how she made the "leap of faith" to marry husband Gov. Mark Sanford even though the groom refused to promise to be faithful, insisting that the clause be removed from their wedding vows.

It bothered me to some extent, but ... we were very young, we were in love," she said in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters to air on "20/20" Friday. "I questioned it, but I got past it ... along with other doubts that I had."

Sanford and her marriage were thrust into the national spotlight in June 2009 when her husband admitted that he had been secretly visiting his longtime lover in Argentina instead of hiking the Appalachian Trail, as he had told his staff.

Sanford learned of her husband's infidelity in January 2009, before the scandal broke. After 20 years of marriage, she moved out of the governor's mansion with the couple's four children in August and filed for divorce in December.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/jenny-sanford-south-carolina-gov-mark-sanford-refused/story?id=9727121

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. That should have been red flag #1, plus the hiking gear in the honeymoon suite.

[katanalori]

2. no vow to be faithful..............

"It bothered me to some extent, but ... we were very young, we were in love," she said in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters to air on "20/20" Friday."

NO, Jenny - HE was not in love. HE married for your family money, to further his ambitions. Writing was on the wall. HE did not even try to hide the fact that he was a RAT.