Tiger Woods: The Fairytale is Over
Elin Nordegren is not the only one feeling disillusioned by her husband's behavior.


Updated on May 18, 2011, 5:18 pm ET
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Here’s an embarrassing admission: There is a part of me that still believes in fairytales. I want to believe in the prince finding his princess and living happily ever after. Call me naïve, but I want to believe in happy endings.

And this is the reason why I was so disappointed this week by Tiger Woods. As more and more skanky women crawl out of the woodwork with damning voicemails and torrid text messages, I find my faith in fairytales sorely tested.

Because, let’s be honest, Tiger has led somewhat of a charmed life up until now. A multiracial kid who defied boundaries, a club-wielding prodigy who never set a foot wrong. He surely had a fairy godmother looking over his shoulder, right?

And then when he fell in love with his golden-haired princess, it looked as if the scene was set for a happy ending — with a $1.5 million wedding that every little girl dreams of, complete with fireworks.

Tiger Woods Family

It would take a hard-hearted person to look at the pictures of Tiger with his wife, Elin, and kids Sam and Charlie, without feeling just a teeny bit warm and fuzzy.

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                       Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren


So I had the rug well and truly pulled out from under me over the weekend as reports surfaced that the golf star’s single-car accident was the culmination of a fight with his wife, during which time she is believed to have scratched his face and attacked his SUV with a golf club.

Last time I checked, Prince Charming wasn’t supposed to turn into a big bad wolf. And I don’t remember Snow White losing her temper and breaking glass.

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danggirl
#1. danggirl on 12/03/2009 - 9:29 am (EST)
I really feel for his wife and his children -- thank goodness they are too young to be embarrassed by all the media about this, but they're grow up soon enough. Shame on him.
vdub4
#2. vdub4 on 12/03/2009 - 1:31 pm (EST)
Shame on him, indeed! And, even tho these women knew that he was married... it was HIS transgression... so why are THEY skanky? Don't get me wrong, I've had the opportunity to have sex with married men, but I didn't because I had respect for their wives and more importantly for MYSELF... but it makes me INSANE when women use hateful words against other women when truly, it is THE MAN in this situation who was wrong.
BODphila
#3. BODphila on 12/03/2009 - 2:16 pm (EST)
I agree the cheater is wrong whether man or woman. But can we all just get a life? Who cares who schtupps whom? None of my business. If you are disillusioned by Tiger's adultery, ask yourself why you had illusions about his sex life to begin with, instead of remembering we love to watch him golf. Not hit fire hydrants, not twist in the media-generated wind, hit a tiny ball into a small hole 500 yards away. I was disillusioned by some of his terrible rounds this year. He is a hero, but only on a golf course.
monifa234
#4. monifa234 on 12/03/2009 - 2:29 pm (EST)
Why are people surprised that Tiger cheated on his wife. I mean COME ON PEOPLE he's not the first high profile athlete to cheat and he wont be the last. Elin will probably get a high profile lawyer and take his ass to the cleaners. After a long period of time she will probably appear on Oprah or Diane Sawyer and cry her eyes out saying how much she loved him blah blah blah. I know i sound harsh but women who marry athletes need to realize that at some point they're going to cheat. I feel sorry for her kids lucky for them they're too young to really feel the media sting. These are the facts of life people it would be nice to think that people will be decent and uphold their marriage vows but we no longer live in that sort of society.
smaslt
#5. smaslt on 12/03/2009 - 2:34 pm (EST)
I really had hoped that it wasn't true. That maybe the Nat'l Enquirer got it wrong. Then skank 2 and now skank 3 are coming out of the woodwork. Yes, skank. He chose to cheat, but he cheated with skanks. He didn't chose to cheat with a normal, average person. He chose media hoes. #2 was on a reality TV show where SHE was cheated on and soooo upset that she left the show. So she turns around and does it to someone else. Uhhh.. that is a skank.

And AND AND!! this is the man who was so shy that he couldn't ask Elin out on a date himself, but asked a friend to ask her! ?? Now he is a ho !! WOW, Tiger you have changed in 6 years. He should write a book "From Shy and Timid, to Skank and Ho in 6 Years... The Tiger Woods story." Sad and stupid.
Shinetop
#6. Shinetop on 12/03/2009 - 5:58 pm (EST)
Why does any relationship have challenges? There is much more to this than what's on the surface. The challenges Tiger and Elin face are far greater than Tiger's current transgressions.. and also explainable. NOT excusable by any means, but explainable.
robynallgeyer
#7. robynallgeyer on 12/03/2009 - 7:26 pm (EST)
Besides Elin and a growing list of other high profile women, there are thousands of others caught in the turmoil of betrayal. These women have no voice, but a new book is helping them find one. "Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal" (New Horizon Press, Sept. 2009) is finding its way into the hands of these women who are suffering in silence. The book is written by two women who have "been there," Barbara Steffens, PhD, LPCC, and Marsha Means, MA. According to Steffens’ 2005 research, nearly 70% of women married to reported “sex addicts” meet the symptomatic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder in response to learning about their husband’s sexual behaviors. However the vast majority of the 1.5 million clinical counselors in the U.S. treat the spouses/partners as co-addicts or co-dependent. This book provides validation, hope, and direction for those who are betrayed and devastated by the effects of sexual betrayal and addiction on their lives.
GOLDENKITTY187INC
#8. GOLDENKITTY187INC on 12/04/2009 - 12:10 am (EST)
LET'S JUST START BY SAYING "WHITE WOMAN WHO MARRY BLACK ATHLETS"....THEY DON'T CARE AS LONG AS THAT MAN IS COMES HOME AT NIGHT, KEEPS A NO BALANCEON THE CREDIT CARD & AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T AFFECT THE CHILDREN, MEANING OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND, TIGER NEVER PROFESSED TO BE A TIMID ANGEL,YOU THE PEOPLE MADE IT APPEAR THET WAY, SO WHAT HE CHEATED WHAT MAN HASN'T CHEated or thought about cheating, EVERY WOAM NKNOWS THIS IF A WOMAN CHOOSES TO STAY WIHT A MAN AFTER HE HAS CHEATED IN ORDER TO MAKE THE RELATIONSHIP WORK, SHE MUST NOT CONSTANTLY BRING UP THE PAST AFFAIR, IF HES RUNNING LATE FROM WORK OR AN ERRRAND SO BE IT CONTINUALLY HARRASSING & QUESTIONING YOUR SPOUSE WILL ONLY PUSH UR MAN OUT THE DOOR, FORGIVEING MENAS NOT BRINGING IT UP EVERY OTHER DAY IT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO FORGET, EVERYTIME A CELEBERITY MAKE CHEATS ON WHAT YOU SAY IS THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HIS SPOUSE, YOU SAY HE HAS A SEX ADDICTION HALLE BERRY FOR INSTANCE HER HUSBAN CHEATED DID YOU EVER ASK WHY JUST BECAUSE SHE SO CALLED BEAUTIFUL, DOESN'T MENA SHES NOT A BITCH TO LIVE WITH OR A NAG, MEN NEED MORE THAN A BEAUTIFUL FACE, THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN THATS WHY THEY RUN OT THE SO CALLED WHORE, WHY BECAUSE SHE DOESNT NAG & FUSS SHE TAKES CARE OF HIS SEXUAL NEEDS THE FACT THAT YOURMAN DIDNT TAKE OUT THE TRASH IS NO REASON TO HOLD OUIT SEX FOR A WEEK ECT.. HE WILL GO TO THE WHORE, & STILL COME HOME AT NIGHT KISS YOU ON THE CHEEK & GO TO BED, AGAIN I SAY NONE OF YOU HAD TO LIVE IN A HOUSE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WITH THEESE SO CALLD BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, DOES BEING CUTE MENA YOU DON'T GET CHEATED ON PLAAEESE, IF A WOMAN HAS GOTTEN BY N HER LOOKS SHE DOESN'T FEEL SHE HAS TO WORK TO PLEASE HER MAN ESPECIALL WHEN THE MEDIA KEEPS TELLING HER HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE IS, SEXY, THEESE ARE REAL PEOPLE WITH REAL PROBLEMS, I CAN TELL YOU THIS IF I SLEPT IWTH TIGER, OR GAVE CLINTON A BLOWJOB THE LAST THING I WOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IS SAVING A DRESS FOR 2 YEARS THAT HAD SPERM ON IT, OR RUNNING MY MOPUT HTO THE TABLOIDS OR ANBODY THAT WOULD LISITEN SOMETIMES THE GREAT REWARD IS KEEPING YOUR PIE HOLE SHUT, WHY IS IT ONLY THE WHITE WOMAN THAT RUSH TO SELL THER STORIES TO A PAPER, THEN CRY ABOUT HOW THERE LIFE HAS CHANGED AND THEY CAN'T GO OUT IN PUBLIC OR THEY HAVE TO MOVE AWAY, A BLACK WOAMAN WOULD NEVER AIR HER BUISNESS, AND TRUST ME A WHOLE LOT OF MARRIED WHITE BOYS IN HOLLYWOOD ARE DIPPING THERE SUGARCANE IN HOT CHOCLATE BUT YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE NEVER TELL NEVER WE DONT KISS,LICK & TELL ANYWAY YOU GET THE PICTURE!!!!
kathymc7719
#9. kathymc7719 on 12/04/2009 - 8:50 am (EST)
YO GOLDENKITTY187INC - TURN THE CAPSLOCK OFF - WE CAN HEAR YOU!
GOLDENKITTY187INC
#10. GOLDENKITTY187INC on 12/04/2009 - 9:33 am (EST)
Sorry 4 the CAP LOC Kathy lol:)

 


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