Tiger Woods Sex Rehab

Elin Woods is participating in her husband's, Tiger Woods, sex addiction rehabilitation. RadarOnline is reporting on their website that Elin went to Mississippi to participate in Tiger's intense recovery program. According to a source, Radar quotes, "The marriage is not over...They both want to save it." Tiger Woods sex rehab is certainly interesting news because it appears that sex, like almost everything else from eating to plastic surgery, can be an addiction.

Elin's visit went undetected because she hired private security for her five day stay. Tiger Woods is seeking treatment for his sex addiction at a place called Gentle Path, also known as Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The clinic, which is directed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, is said to be one of the top in the nation for sexually compulsive behavior or sexual addiction.

Amazingly, Tiger Woods has avoided being seen in public since his car crash Thanksgiving day 2009, yet there are pictures of him at the clinic floating around. Was this intentional on Tiger's part? Did he want to be seen going for help?

What is more important is whether or not wife, Elin, will ever be able to forgive him, and move on. It is not like he had one or even two affairs, this guy had a slew of lovers that he kept on the side. If there is a possibility of Tiger recovering from his addiction to sex, which probably will include the "relapse" phase that most addictions have, will Elin be able to ever trust him again. What will happen if Tiger does relapse and slip into bed with yet another woman after his rehabilitation? How will Mrs. Woods react? One would think that would be severely devastating, and may result in another bad situation.

In any marriage it is easy to divorce and say good-bye, but working to save a marriage is hard. Tiger Woods should be smart enough to know that his "sexual behavior" will be scrutinized more now than ever because no matter how much he wants to keep his life private the fact of the matter is this - Tiger Woods is a professional golfer, and being in the spotlight goes with the game.

He may have kept his dirty little secrets hidden in the past, but the likeliness of that happening again if he is rehabilitated and then relapses is probably zero. Consider all the women that came out of the wood work recently, some had been sleeping with him for years, yet never said a word; who knows how much they "earned" by telling their disgusting details after the initial story broke.

Any woman that finds herself between the sheets or on the washing machine in a sexual act with Mr. Tiger Woods after his treatment stands to make a lot of money, especially if the marriage is still in tact. Why? Sadly, stories like this sell. And none of the women involved with him seemed to care about the wife, Elin, or the fact that two innocent children will grow up and someday see and read all their nasty stories.

Both Tiger and Elin need to think about their kids first because if they try to save their marriage and fail to do so the children will end up being the victims all over again. Let's face it no one knows what those kids saw or heard on Thanksgiving night except Tiger and Elin.

In most cases choosing to save a marriage as opposed to deciding on a divorce might be commendable, but this is far from the common reasons people have problems in marriages. We are talking about a woman who has been emotionally beaten down to a pulp, one that allegedly was driven to violence after finding out about one affair. How will she react if faced with a Tiger "sex addiction" relapse?

Imagine how humiliating that could be for Elin especially if she is participating in his therapy, decides to save her marriage, and after months or years of treatment she is convinced that Tiger is cured; can she handle a relapse.

Pessimistic? No, realistic because many a addicts do fall prey to the urges and impulses of their addiction and often do relapse. So, if Tiger Woods is claiming that he has a sexual addiction, or a medical professional has diagnosed him as being a sexual addict, then he will always be a "recovering" addict.