The latest score is:

Tiger: 1
Bimbos: 10

This morning, Dr. Drew (of Sex Rehab) commented that Tiger is likely a sex addict because of the secretiveness of his other life. If it's your life to have a woman in every port, then fine. But if it's a double life and people are getting hurt, then there's a problem.

And the mention of drugs. Dr. Drew said this is common. That one addiction feeds another addiction.

He said that Tiger can be helped if he wants to be helped. His marriage can be saved if he wants to save it. Both people must want to save the marriage and commit to it for it to be saved. We all know that.

I never understood sex addicts.

If you want it that bad, do it yourself rather than cheat on your spouse. I'm sure if you communicate how badly you need it to your spouse, they wouldn't mind you taking care of your own needs.

When you sleep with ho�s, you get skanked.

I�m not surprised, just surprised that we hadn�t heard about this sooner. He hung with known cheaters. Cheaters like that �birds of a feather� thing.

I�m sad for his wife but she�ll be ok. I know she�s hurting but she should move on. I have to wonder though, if you�re sitting in a restaurant and your hubby is eyeballing other women, wouldn�t you notice? Professional athletes have all kinds of groupies, women that would do anything to sleep with these men. She must have known.

I feel badly for the kids that may grow up without having their father in their lives on a daily basis (but with his travel schedule, how often did he spend time with them anyway?). However, cheaters are not known for good parenting skills either. Too bad this has to play out in the national media.

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A few of those are probably phony.

All this Tiger stuff is bringing back tough memories of my own d-day: finding out about H's seventeen years of cheating with paid-for sex and affairs. Luckily, I didn't find out from the National Enquirer, and my pain wasn't broadcast to the whole world.

But, I have to say that the biggest shock to me was that my husband was capable of behaving like this. He came across to everyone as a man who was conservative to the point of primness. All he had to do was establish himself as a somewhat moody, reticent human being, and he kept me and everyone else at a safe distance.

So I think it's entirely possible that Elin was in the dark about her husband, and that all of this has come as a profound shock. Tiger may well have been a model husband while he was with her...but he seems to have managed not to be with her too much of the time. After all, she's been pregnant for eighteen months of their marriage, and has two small children to look after. Not much travelling can be done.

My heart aches for her.

She can't even come here, because everyone would know instantly who she was!

TA

My WH used to be a professional athlete, and I never thought he would've cheated. I think it's entirely possible that she had no idea. And the assumption that anyone who marries a professional athlete should just "know" that they will cheat is crap.

Does anyone have further details on the confrontation between Elin and Tiger's mom.

Mrs Wood senior sounds like an enabler. Her name and that of the family is tarnished too.

Finding out that our spouses were capable of adultery and committed adultery, was shocking and devastating to all/most of us. After some distance (years, in fact) and looking back on my ex�s behavior, the signs were there that he was capable of these things. My intuition told me that things were not right but I let him �gaslight� me. I didn�t want to believe. When I refused to lie to myself anymore, I saw the truth. This is just my experience. Yes, I�m cynical. I�m sorry if I offended anyone, I wasn�t trying to.

Not offended, GL.

It's just that some people think, "well, she married an athlete, she should have known he'd cheat". A lot of people think like that. and maybe some athletes have "open" marriages where their wives are ok with whatever, but that's not always the case.

Given Elin's reaction (i.e. alleged golf club incident) I assume she was shocked to find out her husband is a cheater.

I agree and I should have worded that differently. Not everyone cheats.

Sure she can. Like A.A., anyone who is interested in recovering is welcome. And unless there's a reason for any of us to break our anonymity on this board, that's what we are: anonymous.

We too, have a singleness of purpose: Marital recovery. One's status in life should not be an impediment to recovery.

(From someone who has known some very recognizable people in the rooms of A.A.)

We might be 'anonymous', but the facts of her situation are pretty unique, and this is a public forum. Given how sensitive we are to 'withheld' information, she'd get a rough ride over facts that didn't gel. Give the truth, and the media would be on here fast enough to crash the MB server.


TA

Gatorade just dropped him.

Good. I'm glad to hear that they dropped him.

I still can't get over all the women who are coming forward about being his "mistress".

It's like they're proud of it. It's sick. There used to be a time when the OW was ashamed of what they were doing.

Tiger "Red Drive" is one of my favorite sports beverages. I'm sure Gatorade will simply remarket it under a different name, but there are so many out there I'll have to find out which it is.

Seriously, how the heck do you keep 10 bimbos secret when you are a sports STAR?

Tiger to his young daughter, Sam:
Honey, there are two kinds of women in this world: Skankahoes and betrayed wives. I'm looking forward to seeing you grow up to be one or both of them.

Yeah, "Is it in you" just didn't sound right anymore...

sorry couldn't help myself

Don�t you wish in your heart of hearts that she could have this support group that we have been so fortunate to have for ourselves? If only she knew what was here. There is nothing like the education that comes from these pages. The many old pros that provide common sense and truth are like seeing the world for the first time for someone newly arrived here.

Like you, my heart aches for her too.