Are you kidding me?

Jenny Sanford, the estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, told Barbara Walters in an ABC interview that her husband insisted they take the fidelity clause out of their marriage vows.

“It bothered me to some extent, but … we were very young, we were in love,” she said. “I questioned it, but I got past it … along with other doubts that I had.”

She called the marriage a “leap of faith.”

The interview will be aired this Friday on 20/20, the day her book is set to be released. She announced she was filing for divorce in December.

Mark Sanford was embroiled in a scandal last year after he admitted to visiting a lover in Argentina, after he disappeared from the state and telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

via Jenny Sanford: Mark Wouldn’t Promise Fidelity — In Wedding Vows | TPM LiveWire.

Perhaps Elin Nordegren Woods, the newest member of the Spurned Sisterhood, could take a few pages from the soon-to-be-ex Mrs. Sanford’s playbook. Nordic silence has its place, but there’s a lot to admire in how Sanford deftly and subtly grasped her part of the narrative and spun it. Hers is not the story of a dull wife who was passed over for an exotic soul mate in Argentina, but rather the tale of the true captain of a family ship, unbowed by the squalls.

via What Elin Woods Can Learn from Jenny Sanford – TIME.