Elin -
Let me guess:
It's the fact that he is better than anyone else that made you easy to impress.
No, wait:
It's the red that he wears on Sunday that had you hot with lust and drunk as a lush.
Maybe it's the way he hits fairway greens with ease – or maybe it's his green that made you wheeze.
When you married the man you married an icon, an idol, a label – when you bashed that club through the back of his truck and shattered the glass, you did nothing but solidify your place among the common elite: another rich woman spurned. Lesson learned?
A tad cold, but it's also refreshing to see a viewpoint that doesn't suggest Elin should qualify for sainthood for putting up with horrible old Tiger.
ReplyDeleteI believe such relationships* operate on a different code, as defeatist and apologetic as that sounds. I've just observed it too many times and it's the main reason why I was able to forgive my father so readily for his two (known) transgressions against my mother. I can't tell you how monumental that last statement was, because whenever anyone messes with my mother, there is a problem.
ReplyDelete*by such relationships, I'm referring to couples where the male or the female is the primary breadwinner and he or she has gone through extraordinary circumstances to get it. Think Vera Farmiga's character from "Up in the Air."
This is a highly debatable topic, I know.
Mmmmm. I know it's debatable, and I can see myself taking either side of that debate, but I'm not going to debate it, because I do know what you mean. If that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI used to see such things in considerably more black-and-white terms... and honestly, in certain areas I still sort of do... but having witnessed a few complicated marriage/relationship situations among various people I know, I've come to realize that sometimes such situations have endless complexities that make it challenging to label people something so simplistic as "villain" or "victim."
As for the world of wealth, one of the things that bothers me is that I feel there is often a contradiction in the moral code between what is agreed upon/accepted in private and what is agreed upon/accepted in public. Nobody wants to seem like they're just in it for the money and are incapable of expressing outrage about something that would seriously bother "normal people." Not saying that this was certainly the case in this case, but... just sayin'.