David Brooks op/ed piece this week (click on title for link) is a terrific summary of what you lose when you leave the option of a happy marriage behind. It really isn't fair to focus on Bullock, because the allegations are that her spouse is the one who made the trade. She doesn't get much of a choice. But it does remind me of Tiger Woods, because while he has made a gargantuan effort to mold his career into something astonishing, he has chosen to make his personal life and the life of his children a mess.
I know, it is age old behavior. They don't call prostitution the oldest profession for nothing. It appears that he is following in his father's foot steps as well. That he might not have grown up with a model for how to value your marriage. Just the knowledge of how hurtful it is to not value it. I just thought he was smart, and this seems very dumb. Oh, how the mighty fall. Time after time. I guess it should be reassuring, that you really cannot have it all, you must give something up. But it is dissapointing.
If this were a trial, and I was the judge, one thing I would sentence him to is reading Michael Chabon's 'Manhood for Amateurs', because he only aspires to amateur status at this point.
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