I feel badly for Mark Sanford. His e-mails seem to show genuine emotion, love, and internal conflict over a difficult situation in which many adults find themselves. Though I would never condone adultery, I believe it is a mistake to paint one-time offenders who enter into a second loving relationship with the same brush we use to paint womanizing repeat cheaters. I tend to think that although cheating is always a result of poor choices, much of the world exists in a vast gray area where outside objective judgments are difficult – if not impossible. Read more »
