What Tiger Woods Teaches Us About Relationships
Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren. Photo courtesy of MSNBC.
There is a silver lining to the infidelity scandal surrounding professional golfer Tiger Woods, according to Dr. LeslieBeth Wish, Ed.D, MSS. We can learn something from his mistakes. Read Wish’s comments in “Life Lessons: Learning from Tiger Woods’ Personal Transgressions” on QualityHealth.com.
Wish, a social worker in Sarasota, Fla., specializes in relationships. She has been a speaker for non-profit, corporate and university organizations and is author of Incest, Work and Women: Understanding the Consequences of Incest on Women’s Careers, Work and Dreams.
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We seem to forget that he is a human being with faults like every person. His infidelity only affects him and his family. I understand he is a public figure but it does not affect me or anyone else that is not part of his family.
I agree, give him his privacy, I’m sure he’s feeling enough shame without the media hypying it up or all the women going after him and making it worse. He’s my favorite golfer and this doesn’t affect how I feel about that. I hope this doesn’t hinder his game play and that he’s back on tour soon. I really enjoy watching him play, he is sooooo gifted, it’s a beautiful thing to watch. The media are just vultures and need to respect his privacy.
I think it is a good example of something that seems to be a serious problem right now among powerful men. Obviously, infidelity has always been an issue, but what is it about these powerful men this year?Is Tiger a classic example of a narcissist?
If it were you , how would you want people to react? Is it our place to judge?
I agree with everyone’s post, the media do need to respect that man’s privacy. Regular men that work a “normal” job cheat on their wives every day, I really do not care what he does because it will not and does not affect me or my life. I feel the same way every time some famous person does something “wrong” and the media blows it out of proportion, and they talk about it for weeks and weeks. The media just need to realize that WE all fall short.
I agree with the general sentiment that we are all human beings with human frailties and vulnerabilities. When celebrities are discovered to be involved in such behavior, the media goes to town, hyping the story, sensationalizing it and develping a storyline that they are able to cover and get mileage out of for extended time periods. Tiger certainly doesn’t benefit. His wife doesn’t. The other women involved don’t truly benefit in the long run, from my perspective. The sport of golf doesn’t. The corporate world for which he has been a major spokesperson suffers huge economic loss. His millions of adoring fans lose the opportunity to watch the brilliance of his play. There are enormous financial losses in the world of golf. Among the greatest losses we endure as a society in my perception, is the recurring scenario where people are built up to celebrity status by the media, and subsequently torn down by the media as well. I think there’s a lot of demoralization and disillusionment that accompanies this process that we see taking place over and over again amongst our leading politicians, great atheletes, entertainers, and others in the spotlight. I wish the process would stop. It’s bad enough that it occurs, but shining a spotlight on people’s frailties during their most vulnerable times, seems cruel, exploitive and an appeal to the worst elements of human nature. We all seem to lose and a piece of our humanity is eroded with every case that is paraded thru the media spotlight. We need to be illuminating the myriad of wonderfully positive aspects of human nature, rather than the parts of human frailty that cause pain, benefit noone and tell what some consider to be a “good story” with “entertainment” value but do so by eroding our beliefs about our innate goodness.
E. A. Wahrburg, MSW, LCSW (NC, NY)
Professional atheletes are major players when it comes to sexual relationships with multiple partners.
America is so childlike in it’s understanding of people and what it means to be human. Just look at the last decade for proof enough.
America needs to wake up.