Where’s Stan the Caddy when Tiger needed him?

Author: Steven Ratson

December 5, 2009

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OK, I’m the last man on earth who would care to have coached Mr. Tiger Woods on how best to have concealed his “transgressions”, but come on now, text messages, voice mails, flying his mistress to Australia, how stupid can he be?

Just because he is a master manipulator of every golf course challenge, this skill set obviously does not translate into the high stakes game of adultery.  Tiger failed to realize that if he has to rely on a caddy when playing the game that he dominates, when he tries his hand at another game, that of playing the field, he should have sought the advice of a seasoned pro, a caddy if you will, or perhaps called upon a subject matter expert like my ex-wife, but I digress.

Enough about me and Tiger though. It’s about the children, for as my son stated emphatically to his Mother, but yet, so unfortunately all for naught, “in a divorce the children come first”!  Yes, we have read this week about the mind staggering offers, 5 million, 55 million dollars, 2 more years to stay with Tiger, 10 more years to stay, pre-nup re-writes…oh excuse me, have we, like my ex-wife, forgot about something, that would be the children?

Yes, what are the children going to think when they mature, and have the courage to seek to understand the truth of how their Mother sold out, at their expense?  What type of lesson is Elin going to be teaching them?  ‘Well kids, he cheated on me, but he paid me a lot of money, so, you’ll be fine, everyone will be fine’…no, they won’t be fine Elin.  They will be smart enough to realize that their Mother has as little regard for her morals, as their Father has for his.

There’s a word for actually accepting money for performing wifely duties, how stupid can “this” Mother be?  Who is she going to fool?  What type of marriage is that?  Most importantly though, what kind of message is this going to be sending to the children?  ‘Oh yeah, he disrespected me kids, but after all, 10 mills to hang around and put on an act for a few more years on the assumption that you kids won’t pick up on the fact of how he treats me, and we wouldn’t be good role models as loving parents, well, {she says as she realizes she once again has backed herself into a verbal corner and thus walks away} for once it’s all about me’!

Elin is as stupid, selfish and narcissistic as Tiger if she does nothing less than demonstrate to her children and make the statement that no amount of money is as important as her dignity, and the example that she makes of herself for the benefit of her children.  In our world of self-absorption, “some people” think it’s a right that their children will forgive them, but it is not a right, it’s a privilege, and that privilege has to be earned.

If Tiger never had the brains to look to the advice of a caddy so he wouldn’t have ended up in this mess in the first place, perhaps Elin will learn from his mistakes, and seek the guidance of someone experienced in prioritizing the needs of the children, because after that, nothing really else matters.

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