archer52,
Your comment certainly gave me a different perspective on Elin. And the rest of your comment is pretty much spot on except for two things. First is to barely mention the importance of children to marriage. Why did Tiger marry Elin? He could have just lived with her or just kept her as a well funded girlfriend. But I think he wanted children. In order to give his children the kind of life that he grew up with, he would get married. Now, obviously Tiger did the wrong thing the wrong way because he didn’t understand that one’s committment in marriage to one’s wife is also one’s committment to their children. How many people do you know that, even as an adult, still suffer the soul crushing damage by their father (or mother) leaving them? The scars of divorce are all around us. Does anyone not think that Tiger’s children will be deeply affected by this? That is what so many men don’t seem to get. You damage your children by your own selfishness(yes, and women too, just not as often).
Which brings to the second point. In the Catholic faith marriage is one of the seven sacraments. That is another belief that has been discarded in the age of anything goes. Marriage is sacred. We have forgotten that. If we treated it as if it were, then there wouldn’t be a 50% divorce rate.
Into this sacrament comes our greatest gifts, our children. To love them as they deserve, we must commit ourselves to our spoouse. It won’t always be easy, but it is always worth it. All the things you mentioned in your excellent comment is the antithesis of that.
Basically Tiger illustrates all that is wrong with our society in regard to marriage. From the way he viewed marriage. To his choice of spouse and her choice of him. To his selfish desires, to the women who sell themselves to married men.
It’s a sad sad commentary on our culture.
