Jenny Sanford on Shine

Jenny Sanford controls her story, announces she has filed for divorce

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From the start, all of us at Yahoo! Shine have been so impressed with how Jenny Sanford has handled the public spectacle her fake-Appalachian-Trail-hiking-governor husband has made of their marriage. Not only did she not stand by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford when he made his bizarre mea culpa to the press and voters after he had disappeared for days to Argentina to be with his lover over Father's Day weekend, but she personally issued her own statement at the time. She made it clear that while she would work on reconciliation with her philandering husband, her dignity and her sons and how they are affected by their family crisis would come first.

As the world has yet to hear from Elin Nordegren, who has been terribly and publicly betrayed by her husband, Tiger Woods, Jenny Sanford issued another statement today, announcing that she has filed for divorce.

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Jenny Sanford: Another political wife wronged, handling it her own way

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Refreshing, wasn't it, to not see Jenny Sanford standing silently beside her fake-Appalachian-Trail-hiking, adulterous husband? And, then, to see her personally hand her statement to reporters outside her home after her husband's tearful, meandering mea culpa before the cameras. How painful it must have been to hear the South Carolina governor apologize to his mistress before his wife.

Her statement is filled with references to forgiveness and reconciliation, and how she was/is all for working through this awful betrayal by her husband, Mark Sanford. But in clear, sharp words, she also tells the world she was/is not putting up with his infidelity and has put self-respect (and her son's respect) front and center: