<p>Hmmm. Paying someone to stay with you? I’m no counselor but I don’t think this smoothes the road ahead very much. Watch out; bridges freeze before road, curves ahead, falling rocks etc.</p>
<p>The news conference with Gloria Allred and Rachel (first affair) was scuttled. It is being reported that Tiger has had contact wtih Rachel in the last 24 hours and hush money is being negotiated. I guess you just pay your way out of trouble. I hope Tiger matches the amount of hush money to his wife and the three women with his Foundation. If he has so much money to throw around, some good should come of it.</p>
<p>uggghhh…I hate stories like these…if MaryAnne and Joe got into something like this…no ONE will CARE!! If my boyfriend did what Chirs Brown did to Rihanna, what would the media do for me. We need REAL news…get out “celebs” private lives. GGGOOOSSHH, I can’t wait to bring Real News to the world!</p>
<p>^ If one of my neighbors wives chased him down the driveway with a golf club, and it ended with him bleeding in the street, believe you me----we would be talking about it for AGES. In fact…I do have some PRETTY GOOD stories, but I will keep them within our small circle of around 500.</p>
<p>Purpleflurp, don’t you think she is being rewarded for her silence as well?</p>
<p>I don’t see that Elin was in any way beneath Tiger - except financially - and I’m sure she would have no problem finding other successful husbands. Hes a college dropout too and I wouldn’t assume his education up until that point was any stronger than hers. I certainly wouldn’t assume he is any smarter than she is. Her parents were both professionals so she wasn’t trying to escape poverty. I don’t see any reason to think that she just saw him as her big ticket.</p>
<p>The actress in Pretty Woman didn’t want to take up Richard Gere’s offer of money and an apt to be available to him when he was in town because that would mean that she would continue to be a protitute. She wanted a different relationship.</p>
<p>If Elin stays only because the pre-nup is rewritten giving her lots more money, what does that make her?</p>
<p>If the girlfriend shuts her mouth now because Tiger is giving her lots of money what does that make her?</p>
<p>Full disclaimer - I don’t like golf, I don’t care about Tiger Woods, I don’t know his wife. I do know something about Skandinavian (former) au-pairs, however, as my H has sailed in Danish regattas a number of times and we have developed quite a few friendships there.</p>
<p>Being an au-pair for a year or so isn’t seen as a social step down for affluent Skandinavian girls. It’s a great way to take a break from school and see a little of the world, and most au-pairs are welcomed as a member of their host family. Elin was not Cinderella - as the daughter of a Swedish cabinet minister and a radio journalist living in DC she would have been as sophisticated and well-traveled as any other young woman that Tiger could have met. Tiger’s lifestyle/money may have appealed to her, but let’s not forget that he’s also not much different in age than her and is smart and good-looking. He had a lot more than just money and fame to recommend him. </p>
<p>If my husband and I had a pre-nup and I found out that he had been repeatedly cheating on me, the first thing I would do, as a business matter, would be to renegotiate the pre-nup. My attitude would be that I now had information about his character and commitment to our relationship that I didn’t have at the time that I signed the pre-nup. I would want to protect myself and my children financially in what might become a very rocky relationship. This is not a matter of education, opportunities, etc. - it’s just good financial sense.</p>
<p>I wish the Woods family all the best going forward.</p>
<p>Most women would prefer to marry a doctor over a truck driver. The ability to provide is a basic portion of a relationship for many normal people.</p>
<p>I would speculate that Elin will stay and try to work it out because they have kids, just like a lot of people stay and try to work it out because they have kids.</p>
<p>It may well be that the pre-nup is being re-written to include a penalty for infedelity, or whatnot, given that prenups are basically there to protect someone from being USED by someone else. Money is not the only thing that can be used by someone. Perhaps now that he has “done her wrong” and she chooses to stay, it changes the nature of how they see thier relationship. It’s not really so cut and dried as the idea that she is a prostitute and he is her john.</p>
<p>She could get another job, I’d guess, and he probably doesn’t have to pay for sex.</p>
<p>Maybe they are renegotiating the nature of their marriage contract altogether. Perhaps he is incapable of monogomy and she is deciding to rewrite how they will conduct the marriage. There are all sorts of ways to be married. For example, I never really thought Hillary Clinton cared one way or another if Bill had other women. I really don’t think she cares now. Therefore, nobody cares.</p>
<p>In the case of the governor in South Carolina? Clearly his wife wasn’t in on the new rules and felt betrayed. </p>
<p>So, what do we know? We know he cheated. We know she probably chased him with one of his golf clubs. We know they are currently renegotiating thier marriage contract. Marriage is a contract. Where they go from here is up to them.</p>
<p>His sponsors have said they will stand by him. Nobody stopped advertising on David Letterman. I wonder if David Letterman’s wife left him or renegotiated the prenup? Or took a new lover? Who knows? Better their house than mine, though. That’s about all I know for sure.</p>
<p>Yes, Barrons, many women would prefer a doctor to a truck driver and most men would prefer a beautiful woman to an ugly one…it’s the nature of the way the human works. All the protests in the world won’t change that.</p>
<p>The sponsors have been quiet for the last couple of days as the scope has become apparent. I am not so sure he will escape unscathed with his sponsorships. This is different from Lettermann, though. Wasn’t his infidelity from before he was married (although I know he was living with the woman who is now his wife)?</p>
<p>I hope she doesn’t get paid just to stay with him. Somebody alluded to that. How much money is worth staying with someone who treated her like that? Doesn’t pride come in somewhere?</p>
<p>according to abc news: [Tiger</a> Woods Sponsors Gatorade, Nike, Others Stay Loyal - ABC News](<a href=“Tiger Woods' Sponsors Stay Loyal in Wake of Crash, Infidelity Allegations - ABC News”>Tiger Woods' Sponsors Stay Loyal in Wake of Crash, Infidelity Allegations - ABC News)</p>
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<p>I’d suggest it comes in, if at all, AFTER the interests of the children of the marriage.</p>
<p>I think he is probably playing the sex addict card saying it wasn’t his fault - it was a disease - a compulsion. He’ll say he can be cured with therapy. Of course, he’ll say he never loved any of these other women - he only loves her and his affairs had nothing to do with love. Then the “please don’t abandon me because of this disease…” </p>
<p>That’s my prediction. </p>
<p>Did it work with David Duchovny?</p>
<p>That is indeed a very pricey (pack of) hot dog(s) Mr. Woods got himself into:</p>
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<p>That is the exact report that I heard earlier on the newscast–same numbers.</p>
<p>That supports exactly what I was saying about Elin in my above posts. She’s one who looks for “opportunity.”</p>
<p>Many women manage to raise kids on their own with much less than five million dollars plus, I’m sure, generous child support. The rest is “prostitute pay,” or more generously, “taking advantage of opportunity” pay.</p>
<p>No pity for either of them here, though plenty for the kids. I think they both knew what they were getting. ;)</p>
<p>A young woman that marries and finds her husband stepping out on her after 5 years of marriage and a couple of young babies…yes, she deserves a little bit of pity.</p>
<p>Perhaps I am just deluded enough to think she married him because she loved him and not because of his big moneymaking machine. Why would she be so different than any other twenty-something who married? </p>
<p>I am pretty cynical, but this attitude is pretty harsh!</p>
<p>lgm - I’m with you. I see no reason to believe that she was after his money. I feel very sorry for her. She is humiliated I’m sure and probably worried sick how this will affect the kids. I don’t blame her for going after every penny she can get though. She seems to be a private person and privacy costs a lot.</p>