It's sad and disappointing. I think back to when my daughter was two, as we just watched her two year old Christmas celebration the other night...and that Tiger's two year old has just lost her daddy for a lot of her life, and the ramifications that can bring...how Tiger's wife has to be humiliated and the things that can happen to a woman's psyche because of this...the betrayals...self worth...
Tiger Woods is in need of a lot of help...a lot of help. He will either turn to the one place that can heal him, or he will find solace in the advice of the likes of Charles Barkley and in the arms of numerous women whose stories are probably similar...daddy's didn't bother, daddy wasn't around...and so the cycle goes.
Very sad.
Tiger was one of my favorite all time athletes, and while no man or woman is perfect, and we are far from it, the number of Tiger's transgressions, the apparent network of deception that he had to enable these trysts, is sociopathic.
I agree with you. Tiger's issues seem to be pretty large. He needs to learn to understand what kind of pathology allowed him to lead a double life and keep the network of deception going. If he doesn't try to understand it, it will affect his future behavior.
It's interesting that narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder have a lot of overlap in terms of behaviors that make up each diagnosis. Both are disorders of the self as one relates to others. Both diagnoses share a common theme, which is a lack of understanding or caring about the effect one has on other people. If Tiger truly has no remorse about it, it would indeed somewhere in the range of antisocial personality disorder (or at least traits). Perhaps sociopathy is a bit strong. However, he could be narcissistic and histrionic. Maybe he needs to feel constantly adored. At any rate, he has a lot of work ahead of him.
Jon, I completely agree that divorce makes life a hell of a lot more challenging for everyone, and is a very serious issue. Hopefully, it will be possible for him to have a good, consistent, loving relationship with his children. If that can't happen, that's the real loss.
Having said that, we don't know what their married life was like (nor should we). I say this because we sometimes idealize marriage, and I can assure you that on a daily basis, I work with patients who were traumatized in many terrible ways. Some come from a divorced household, and some didn't. Love and trust can be had, or shattered, in both situations.
Maybe the media craze will end now. God bless them.
