Tiger Woods Affairs - His Marriage is Over

 

The papers, the tabloids, the television news, even the sports shows are yelling and screaming about Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren.  The alleged illicit affairs of Tiger and these other women unfortunately are not as shocking to the public as it once had been.  Affairs and sex scandals occur everyday to thousands of couples.  Recently high profile celebrities like Tiger Woods and his infidelity as well as  David Letterman, Woody Allen, Hugh Grant, Bill Clinton, and Kobe Bryant to just name a few.  Infidelity knows no bounds.  It strikes young and old, rich and poor, adjusted and maladjusted alike.

 

You have to ask yourself, how does a wife like Elin Nordegren coupe with such a revelation as an affair like Tiger Woods allegedly had .  Most try to face up to the truth about what has just happened to their marriage.  That sacred bond between husband and wife has been violated.  Their mind reels about the affair their spouse has been involved with.  Elin will start to ask herself questions like how did it happened, where did it happened and worse yet, why did it happened.  In confronting Tiger, those questions and many more will come out.  Elin like many wife’s want to know every sordid detail of this secret life their spouses have lead behind their back. 

 

When a person’s life has been totally turned upside down, it is difficult to determine what to do next.  For Elin Nordegren, those first few weeks will be the worst.  After discovering the affair, her relationship with Tiger will be nothing short of poisonous.  There will be nothing but raw emotions uncovering anger, grief, and shame.  She will be lashing out at Tiger who has desecrated that marriage.  Afterwards she will probably begin to feel the sadness, hurt and pain.  That’s when Elin will begin to ask herself, “How could I have trusted Tiger?  What did I do wrong to cause this?”  Elin will follow these questions by finally asking the really hard one, “Now, what do I do?”

 

Elin will have to find an answer for that question though it is different for everyone.  Many women find it difficult to stay with their spouses and simply walk away from the relationship.  Many others continue to stand by their mates and try to find a way to forgive them.  We have all heard the stories of people telling their friends that if they caught their spouse in an affair they would throw them out the door.  The truth is that of those couples who enter counseling after an affair, over 70% save their marriages. 

 

However, you still need to think long and hard before walking away from a marriage.  In Elin Nordegren’s case as in many others they have put in a lot of time and energy in that relationship.  In her case she has a history with Tiger and since there are children in that marriage, divorce is a hard choice to make, money or no money.  Those women that do stay after an affair many times end up with a much stronger marriage.  If Elin and Tiger are more honest with each other and commit to open communications, they may find that as well.

 

However, many couples do not push through after an affair.  Elin could continue to  have obsessions about Tiger’s  whereabouts.  Elin may wonder if Tiger would leave her