Posted on 12/13/2009 12:49:08 PM PST by myknowledge
Tiger already divorced her by his actions. God never intends anyone to live and be exposed to the reproductive tracts of anyone other than the spouse. That is not marriage.
Lots of people today forget the disease aspect of their so-called affairs.
I can’t see how he can ever be trusted. This isn’t a case of a casual fling, he was jumping anything he could catch. It’s a major character flaw at his age, considering that he is married with 2 little kids.
spent $65,000 on prostitutes.i think it will come to a tad more than that.Lawyers smile.
Apparently he was unhappy with his wife and sought sex elsewhere. Elin is now unhappy. Tiger will soon be unhappy again, but without half of his shit.
The uproar over Tiger Woods right now baffles me. He’s another human being. He screwed up. He’ll pay for it now. End of story.
I find what he did to be disgusting. I am saddened to see his family mistreated in this manner. His wife and children didn’t deserve it. I am sad for them. I am sad even for him, because what he did was self-destructive, and will ultimately make him very unhappy. He has a lot of pain ahead of him, and deservedly so.
This matter, is a simple one. The guy acted the part of a fool. He wasn’t be the first. He won’t be the last. And when it gets right down to it, we don’t honestly know what went on between Tiger and his wife. On the outside things looked peachy, and maybe they were. On the other hand, she may not have been the devoted wife we thought she was either. And utlimately, I don’t care. If your wife is a pain, leave the relationship. Start another. It’s not an excuse to behave as Tiger did.
Okay, so here we are, and people are really worked up over this. Why?
My reaction to this situation was to say to myself, aw this is a shame. He was a great golfer and seemed like to decent guy. Now he’s destroyed that for himself. It was easy for me to dismiss his actions beyond that, because I never invested myself in the guy. He was a great golfer. Good for him. He had a nice family. Good for him. He was well respected and getting rich. Good for him.
When the problem came up, I wasn’t angry at him. He was a human that blew it. He would suffer the consequences, but that would be normal. Sad, but understandable.
Others didn’t seem to be able to let it go so easily. My only explanation for that, is that they either felt like he was evil for having done what he did, or they had invested a lot of adoration for him, and this burst their bubble.
I haven’t been the most perfect of human beings, so I’m not going to harp on a private citizen for having done what he has, even if I oppose what he did ardently.
I haven’t become a dedicated fan, so his private life just doesn’t matter to me, outside of not liking to see any wife and children treated with his much disregard, at least for their sense of betrayal, and estrangement. To my knowledge the wife didn’t deserve it, and for darn sure the kids didn’t. Still, all of this is none of my business.
For those who are most angry about Tiger and wish to take him to task, why? What’s the point? I don’t wish to see his income vaporize. I don’t see how that helps his wife or children.
The press has blown this out to the point that the wife has been humiliated far beyond what she needed to be. The press wasn’t just informing a public that needed to know, they were doing far more than Woods did to destroy his family. At least he was somewhat discrete. The media has been anything but, doing their damnedest to cause every ounce of pain to Tiger’s wife that they possibly could. They have been rubbing her nose in it publicly for weeks now. And every time they out a new player, it’s got to hurt even more.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Tiger’s wife already knew there were problems. Perhaps she was prepared to live that life, knowing and giving grudging acceptance. Now what? Her shame has been magnified exponentially. The whole world knows. Her humiliation is global.
I sympathize with her for what the press has done here. I sympathize with her for what Tiger did to betray her. His shortcomings will cost everyone including him.
It’s a sad development and aftermath all the way around.
If I never hear another word about it, I’ll be the happer for it. And I’d imagine his wife and children would be too. And isn’t that what our concern now should be, their recovery?
Yes.
Uh, seems to me if you check you will find many of these bimbos were in progress before he married her. Time to face reality, if you cheat it is not because of your spouse; it's because that's what you want to do.
“Unequally yoked”
The News of the World is worse than a “tabloid”, its a complete cartoon of a real newspaper and is like our World Weekly News. Its garbage and totally fabricated.
“Actually, the kids would be worse off if Tiger and Elin divorced.”
Hm-m-m-m-m, I’ll have to tell my well-adjusted, happy, productive offspring that they would be better off if I had stayed with their abusive father....
Being on the Pro Golf Tour keeps a guy away from home a lot.
Apparently, and for good reason, Elin did not want to travel around with him. That leaves the door wide open for a man of low morals with a lot of money.
Tiger is a Buddhist. I doubt if he cares what God states about divorce. I suspect his wife is the same.
One could almost see Elin forgiving one affair-but TEN!!! I doubt that I would wait until after Christmas. It will only make things tense.
“annulment, and this appears to be the canonical case of it.”
There is no “canonical case” for annulment. When one spouse has been unfaithful, the other is permitted to divorce, but that’s not the same as pretending they were never married.
Well said!
While I agree that “Divorce is a Sin” and agree with your supporting Scripture, there is also Scripture in Matthew and Luke (cited elsewhere in this thread) in which Jesus makes the ONE exception for (the biggie) Adultery.
Also in the letters of Paul, provision is made for an “Unbelieving Spouse” who “Walks Away” from the marriage.
ALL of it is a tragedy, and points to the hardness of our hearts as failing humans, and why we all need the saving Grace of God in the first place.
I really don’t see a future for this marriage, after the public humiliation the wife has gone through, but with God, all things are possible. It would take a MIGHTY MOVE of THE SPIRIT for such a thing to happen though, in my humble opinion.
Thank you.
I guess when it comes to cash for info, nobody has any friends who can keep their mouths shut...........LOL!
Reagan did.
Tiger and Elin are the children of divorced parents. And the idea that these kids will be deprived of any material needs is beyond comprehension. They are set for life and Elin can always remarry.
Great post, very thoughtfully written.
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