Tiger's Apology

PhillyTwo, wise beyond her years, maintains that there are two things and two things only that keep men from cheating.
1. Lack of opportunity.
2. Religion.
I keep asking, what about integrity? Aren't there men who remain faithful because they have personal integrity? And she keeps saying, integrity, inshmegrity. Opportunity, religion. End of story.
She may be right. But I also think fear plays a role...fear of getting caught (with your pants down around your ankles). For a lot of men, the fear isn't about losing their wives. The fear is about losing half their net worth. That hits them where it really hurts. Their hearts are made of steel. It's their wallets that are vulnerable.
But back to PhillyTwo's theory. Tiger's opportunities to cheat? I'd say they were constant. The bevy of beauties who made themselves available to him? Infinitesimal.
Was he ever afraid that Elin would find out? Probably. But pleasure trumped fear. And entitlement trumped everything. It always does. In his statement, when he read that he had felt entitled, that's when, if I were his wife, my heart would have turned ice cold (if it hadn't already).
But after all was said and done, and there was nowhere else to turn, that's when, in my opinion, Tiger hit rock bottom. That's when he claimed that he's gonna stay out of the hen house because of his Buddhist upbringing. Well bully for him. I would have given him respect if he had said he was going to remain faithful because anything less than that would hurt the woman he loves (and I don't mean his mother). But vowing monogamy and asking for forgiveness, while giving props to Buddha, was right down there in the gutter alongside entitlement in my book. Tiger fail.
And the staged mama-hug? The best reason of all for Elin to beat the ever-loving shit out of her sorry-ass, mama's boy, philandering husband (the proverbial monetary beating, of course).