<p>I think many women might give their wandering hubbies one chance to repent and commit to the relationship. If the husband should fail (like Mark Sanford), I think the wife can, in good conscience, get divorced and move on with her life.</p>
<p>“Elin was 100 per cent in it for love.” </p>
<p>Riiiiiiiiight. The money had nothing to do with it. Take away the money and Tiger is an immature, anal-retentive college dropout with a huge ego who spends all day on the golf course and let his parents run his life. Those aren’t exactly hard to find. They are about as hard to find as cute nannies who want to marry a rich guy.</p>
<p>Does anyone else get this autistic vibe from Tiger? This feeling that he lacks any modicum of empathy? He married his wife kinda just because it was something that people his age did. Is he capable of love?</p>
<p>And lastly, is this something that’s biological like autism or Asperger’s or is it a result of his environment? Developing in a system where he is, with absolutely no doubt, the best in the world.</p>
<p>Elin should stick it out through the rough times, since marriage is for the long haul???</p>
<p>Tiger’s behavior has been WAY, WAY, WAY worse than anything that could be called “rough times”.</p>
<p>^^I know some folks who have been diagnosed with Asperger’s or autism. They would be among the last I would suspect of duplicity.</p>
<p>Oh, right. Yeah, I know some people with Asperger’s too and you’re right. I don’t think they’re too capable of that either.</p>
<p>Ok then, how about just psychopathy. Or something else that entails a lack of empathy and ability to relate to others.</p>
<p>If autism were a legit excuse, you can bet Bill Clinton would have shown up at a press conference in (to semi-borrow a line from “Tropic Thunder”) “Full Rain Man.”</p>
<p>I just don’t understand those women. I saw one interviewed the other night (sort of zaftig blonde…the pancake waitress maybe?) and the interviewer asked her if she ever thought about Elin and the children when she was cavorting with TW. Without blinking an eye, “No, not really.” Shame and guilt are words nobody thinks of anymore. I’d crawl under a rock and never come out.</p>
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<p>The only “lesson” is that there is nothing new under the sun, and some men will continue to think with what is below the waist even when they have a lot to lose. Forever has it been, and forever shall it be.</p>
<p>In general I believe in the last 25 yrs or so it somehow has become more important to take care of ones self first without any regard for others in our American society. People are always rushing to take, to be first in line. They feel entitled. They are no longer polite. They no longer take turns or let others go first.They don’t care if their actions will eventually harm others. They just get out of the way and move on to what they want next. More and more people are behaving this way as they find themselves “left out” if they don’t.</p>
<p>I don’t know how this has happened. I just know it has. I hate it. We don’t play the game this way. Nor do many other people. But more and more people are throwing away their ethics just to get ahead. Just to get what they want.</p>
<p>Sax, I agree with you and it’s not just American society; it’s the same where I live.</p>
<p>I like Sax’s post. I think he is right.</p>
<p>I think Tiger has had hundreds of different women. Maybe in the thousands. But I can’t help but notice that Kobe Bryant is back in the world’s good graces. So…</p>
<p>Maybe I missed it, but did woman after woman after woman etc, etc, etc start showing up in the news after the Kobe Bryant story broke?</p>
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<p>Definitely not just an American phenomenon. No one who has ever been in the Rome airport could think Americans are worse than others about rushing to be first in line.</p>
<p>Not everyone has a diagnosable disorder to explain away their behavior. Some people are just selfish, inconsiderate jerks.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>True, but events of boorish behavior in public seems to be normal these days. This whole “free to be me” thing in American society has taken off and looks like it’s never coming back to Earth.</p>
<p>“But I can’t help but notice that Kobe Bryant is back in the world’s good graces.”</p>
<p>Kobe didn’t have 13 mistresses (and still counting). I don’t remember indications that Kobe had cheated on his pregnant wife and brought mistresses into his home. I don’t remember indications Kobe didn’t use condoms. I also don’t remember hearing about Kobe and porn stars and threesomes.</p>
<p>Tiger truly is in a category all of his own.</p>
<p>From the Huffington Post.</p>
<p>"The News of the World reports that Tiger Woods allegedly slept with rumored mistress Jamie Jungers the night his father died. According to the article, Woods visited Earl Woods at a hospice hours before he passed away, but the golfer later returned home, where he had sex with Jungers. The 26-year-old says, “I was beside him wearing nothing but a pair of panties” when Woods received the news of his father’s death.</p>
<p>Jungers also claims that Woods was “always tight with money.” In addition to refusing her request for help when she needed money, she says he did not tip: “When we’d go out for dinner, he never left a tip or he’d ask for the meal to be complimentary because he was ‘Tiger Woods’. I just thought that was cheap and it always embarrassed me.”</p>
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<p>Another thought - if you were the PR person assigned to save TW Inc. and TW was ready to do what it took, what would your moves be? I would vote for TW outdoing Oprah in Africa or somewhere impoverished in the US, and spend a few hundred million on education, hospitals etc. and personally spending some time there. Who knows, he may actually have an epiphany and realize how good he had it with 1W, and if not at least it would be money spent on a good cause rather than paying off #s 1-nn.</p>
<p>How many pictures are floating around showing Tiger and these women? Are there a lot of pictures? Tiger obviously cheated but are we sure all of these women are truthful?</p>
<p>With every cell phone having a camera I wonder where all the pictures are.</p>
<p>"The question I still have is that if all of this is legit, how is it that for this long, everything was kept under the wraps? "</p>
<p>Here’s an article that contains some ideas about that.</p>
<p>"How was Woods, 33, able to maintain a pristine image as a loving husband, father and son that was at raging odds with an apparently tawdry private life?</p>
<p>Some people say Woods’ famously controlling nature allowed him to philander unsuspected. (On Friday he admitted publicly that he had cheated on his wife.) Some wonder whether intimidated golf reporters never pressed Woods because they did not want to risk losing the little access they had to the sport’s premier practitioner. Some believe that fellow players, had they suspected, would have kept mum because of Woods’ beneficial effect on their earnings, TV ratings and public interest in golf.</p>
<p>Others think the singular nature of professional golf itself made it possible for Woods to create a nearly impenetrable zone of privacy – or secrecy.</p>
<p>“I wish I had some brilliant theory because that’s been the big question to me,” said sportswriter John Feinstein, author of the best-selling 1995 book A Good Walk Spoiled. Woods is so reluctant to disclose personal information, Feinstein said, that the writer considered it a triumph when he coaxed out of Woods the relatively trivial fact that he was a registered independent. Still, Feinstein said, he believes that Woods’ inner circle must have known he was straying.</p>
<p>“I can’t see how his agent or caddie could not have known,” Feinstein said. “It’s his agent’s job to know what the heck the guy was doing. If he didn’t know, he should be fired.” (Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, has communicated with the media only by e-mail recently, and has not addressed whether he knew about his client’s transgressions.)</p>
<p>Unlike professional athletes who travel with teammates, golfers can insulate themselves from prying eyes if they choose. Like other high-end golfers, Woods usually travels by private jet. When he takes a car anywhere, he usually drives himself. The lack of privacy common to team sports isn’t an issue…</p>
<p>Until last summer, several people who write about golf said, they had not heard even a whisper of a rumor about Woods’ dalliances. But after the British Open in Turnberry, Scotland, where Woods did not play well, two British journalists called an American golf writer, ■■■■■■■■ for gossip about Woods’ marriage.</p>
<p>“If you’re kind of dialed in to what’s going on, you heard rumors over the summer about marital issues there,” said Daniel Wexler, a golf historian and author of several books on golf. “But why would you pursue it? It’s not germane to what’s going on at the golf course.”
[Tiger</a> Woods: Did Tiger get help hiding his secret? – OrlandoSentinel.com](<a href=“http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-tiger-woods-secret-121309-20091212,0,6483309.story]Tiger”>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-tiger-woods-secret-121309-20091212,0,6483309.story)</p>