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Will Sex Addict Treatment Save Tiger Woods's Marriage?

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These are important questions, afterall, we know how much "rehab" has helped linsey lohan and others. Is the therapy going to work for him or is this just for show? I hope one of the lessons for us is how bad sex addiction is.

Sarah Sherwood of CA 4:11PM February 25, 2010

When you are married it's in sickness or good health. I feel a commitment is to be honored. Illness also applies to mental as well. It takes a strong person to go through a treatment program reguardless of the addiction some make it and others keep struggling. I wish Mr. and Mrs. Wood the best in their progess of marriage.

V Pack of OK 2:39AM February 10, 2010

", this was all the sex addicts will be able to find each other easily"
should read
", this way all the sex addicts will be able to find each other easily"
and by "proceeding to hurt us and our children with their actions" - I mean that the sex addict will always hurt his/her family by his/her actions.

Cat of NY 7:55PM February 01, 2010

I think people who say things like"... 'who have all sinned' are not to judge..."
are just people who have done something wrong and are afraid of being punished so they are trying to spread this propaganda so that the people they have wronged can continue to put up with their evil deeds.
I say judge, and when your time comes to be judged, accept that judgment, let everyone stand ready to face the consequences of their actions.
Meanwhile sex addicts should not get married and they should be honest with prospective partners about their inability to be in monogamous relationships, this was all the sex addicts will be able to find each other easily and just sleep around with other sex addicts instead of getting into relationships with the rest of us and then proceeding to hurt us and our children with their actions.

Cat of NY 7:49PM February 01, 2010

If we 'who have all sinned' are not to judge then we can lower the public deficit by ridding ourself of the courts, the police, prosecuters etc.

preston of TN 2:00PM January 30, 2010

I read with humour some of the things that are posted on these sites in relation to the Tiger Woods issue......who are we to judge, who are we to say what his wife should or should not do, there is no one out there who has any right to pass judgement on Tiger.....the Bible say, judge not least we be judged......it also went further and said, he who is without sin let him cast the first stone, we all live in this sinful world, and we want to judge and redicule the man.......judgement is for the Lord not us mere mortals........if most of you passing the judgement used to read your bibles, allya would not be so quick to judge........the Bible also tells us, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.......any one out there who is lily white, speak to me.

cherri of NY 9:12AM January 29, 2010

Like it was said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"!!! ...likewise, in a perves manner though, it seems to hold true that, Lust is in the eye of the beholder..
Pinching aside.. however, us humans can truly make one hundred degree turn-arounds especially if our eyes behold the ugly image we are portraying to 'ourself only' and not to our spouse, friends, peer pressure, critics, boss or God for that matter,...bcs if I have become what I like about myself then why would it matter what X thinks..?!! ..otherwise, it would seem to be that kingdom i was trying to establish is becoming undone and i would lie through my teeth to reclaim it... bcs united we stand divided she gets most of it all.. yes the truth is liberating to those who value it however, the truth is ruthless to its opposing energies..

Johny B 9:17PM January 28, 2010

For years I've complained that Tiger Woods is boring. Absolutely boring. He's the best golfer, great, I get it. Over any manicured plot of grass, come cliff or crag, canyon or country, on any crater of sand and body water so strategically placed, indeed, el Tigre will strike his little white ball with a mallet of tungsten and steel less times than you, nay, than anyone! Tiger Woods, the champion of minimalism, lord of the links, God of golf, terrific, yay! Watch him make that dimpled ball do what he intended! Watch him exert measured blows and calculate inertia! What a guy, nay, genius! And yet, cynical as I am and have always been regarding all things Tiger (save the highlights that, of course, speak for themselves), since the "incident" I've read so many Tiger Woods articles I now feel like I'm studying for an exam. Right now Google news is like the game Clue, I get to flip over a new card every morning. "Really, she bought a house in Sweden? Hmmm…" And on I go pacing around my office stroking my chin, as though preparing to try the case. Instead of work on my desk I'm amassing circumstantial evidence, reenacting the scene in my head, going over it with coworkers, positing endless hypotheticals, "would you have broken two different windows to unlock a door?" So lost in thought I legitimately asked someone yesterday: Where the hell was TMZ when the weapons of mass destruction debate was going on?
The Tiger situation is what it is. How could the world's biggest yet most boring athlete, the veritable "banana in the tail-pipe" brother, pull such a massive piece of wool so perfectly over our eyes for so long? I mean, a girl every night? Tiger? In some ways it's almost more astonishing than his accomplishments on the golf course. His nickname at Stanford was Erkel. Literally, the golf geek of all golf geeks. And that's no small feat, let alone at Stanford. Amateur golf tournaments make chess players look cool. Imagine guys in collared shirts and khakis with yardage books in their pockets, now imagine then hitting on girls, it's painful. But maybe so painful Tiger had to vindicate his kind. He succeeded at making golf cool, why not take a stab at making golfers cool too? I guess that's the crossroads I find myself at. After years and years of rooting against Tiger, for loathing what I saw as the most manufactured vanilla Sunday American-dream icon ever created, here he was playing the crooked politician every night on the sly. El Tigre the great, instead, was gallivanting like no golfer has before while not so much as blinking over a five foot putt the next day. Do I respect what he did, no, not hardly. Do I hate him for it, no, I don't. I think the strangest thing about the whole fiasco is, now it's as tho I finally know who Tiger is, and it's a helluva lot more than I ever knew before. In that regard, he's hardly boring, and, strangely, much easier to like.

R. Kirby of CA 6:40PM January 28, 2010

I don't believe Tiger has "Hypersexual Disorder" what an easy cop-out label. Once in a while we have all kinds of fantasies, he wants to live his. Let's go back to the fundamentals here, he needs a lot of maturation to do-respecting the institution of marriage, he needs to respect his wife and not take her for granted, respect his marraige vows. And secondly, he needs to man-up and be a responsible husband to Elin. Let's leave them alone.

Rudege of NC 4:30PM January 28, 2010

From what I've read, it sounds like Tiger fits the hypersexual disorder and then some. He does not have a normal sex drive, he is hyper obsessed about it. He thinks about it all the time, when he's not having sex with all these women, then he's having them send text pics of themselves. I'll bet you it's a morning until, well, sometimes morning obsession with him. I heard one of the mistresses (skanks) say they would start having sex at 9:00 p.m. and would go until morning. This is definitely a "binge" if I've ever seen one.
I also think this controlling, obsessive behavior started early and I believe it started with his Dad having him putting before 2 years old over and over and over again until he was perfect. I'm not saying it was wrong for his Dad to spend this much time with him and turn him into the biggest, best golf machine in the world, but I think it created perfection with a price. I think his obsession to be the best golfer has created other obsessions. It makes me also wonder if he has any other obsessions, like gambling, etc. I would think a person who is this obsessed with perfection and so controlling in so many parts of his life, had to "vent" somewhere and boy did he "vent"! There are so many people with this disorder, whether it be addictions/obsessions with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, shopping, etc. It ruins there lives and they can't control it. I truly believe Tiger is a sex addict and should really benefit from this treatment facility. I don't think he was a completely happy guy (I know a lot of men would disagree!) but deep down, he was lying and cheating on his wife, and cheating on umpteen mistresses with other mistresses and he just couldn't stop. I'm sure he was happy "in the moment" but when he'd come back home and the reality of what he was doing would hit, I'm sure he faced his demons. I hope their marriage works out, but that will take years and will be extremely hard on the both of them. Elin is about one of the strongest women I have ever seen. She has decided that she is willing to forgive Tiger and see him get help and try to keep her children from being "children of divorce" like she was. God bless her and her willingness to try. So many people just give up on marriage like it was nothing for a LOT less than what Tiger did. Tiger really needs to learn how to have a wholesome, normal relationship with a woman. His role model for that was his Dad who was quite the cheater himself. If Tiger can really look deep down inside himself, I really believe he can find happiness and peace and be happy with just one woman,... his beautiful, dignified, strong, patient, and caring wife. God he better not screw up and let her go again, he'll never find anyone like her ever again.

Leigh of VA 3:58PM January 28, 2010