Sanford and Gosselin

I just watched a video of SC Governor Mark Sanford's press conference (here) and I have been following the "Jon & Kate" saga over the past few days, and I can only say that men, particularly husbands, are taking a bath.

It is painful to watch the mealy-mouthed statements of these guys about what they're doing or what they have done. Every country-fied or southernized phrase out of Sanford's mouth made my stomach hurt; it almost seemed like he was enjoying the attention at this press conference. He was too comfortable.

Jon Gosselin expressed his "sad[ness]" and "excite[ment]" in his first public statements (on Monday's Jon & Kate Plus 8 broadcast) about divorcing his wife and the mother of his children . . . he said he was "proud" that he was "finally standing on his own two feet" (whatever that means; though I doubt he meant to say he was hereafter proverbially paying his own freight).

It is so important that guys have someone in their lives--or will allow someone into their lives, who is willing to tell them uncomfortable truths. I need to be cultivating those types of relationships myself.