Topic: Adultery

Elin Nordegren, Divorce, and Single Motherhood

Elin Nordegren, Divorce, and Single Motherhood

It should be really easy to hate Elin Nordegren. She’s gorgeous, rich and not falling apart at all. I happen to like my celebrities to be of the trainwreck variety. We’ve been hearing for months that Nordegren went crazy when she found out about her husband’s whorish tendencies. I had great pictures in my head of an angry Barbie doll chasing her husband down the street with one of his beloved golf clubs. We all knew that she would get millions of dollars and settle down in a perfectly blissful life. That crazy lady with the nine iron – that was my kind of celebrity. But now, she’s calm and grieving, sharing her story with People magazine. I expected to flip through the interview, without really reading it, and say, “Poor, poor rich girl. It sucks to be you. Glad that’s over…”

Except if you actually read Elin’s interview, she seems like a very difficult person to dislike. More »

Bitch, Please: What Can You Do When Your Friend Is ‘The Other Woman’?

Bitch, Please: What Can You Do When Your Friend Is 'The Other Woman'?

Last night, over drinks, my friend “Ann” told me she was seeing this amazing guy, and spent I swear an entire hour gushing about how sweet he is, and how attentive he is, and how respectful he is and, of course, how hot the sex is. There was a lot about how how the sex is. And then when she was done describing how great his penis was, the other shoe dropped: he’s married.

He’s not married and in an open relationship or something, and I know because the following 30 minutes she spent talking about what a bitch his wife supposedly is, how she let herself go after they got married, how she hates sex, how they fight all the time, how they’re only together for the kids, how if his wife wasn’t so terrible he would never cheat, and on and on and on. And she expects me to be supportive and hate on the wife with her and tell her how great it is that she’s happy… but I can’t. My last boyfriend cheated on me for ages and I heard back from people that (minus the kids and the fat part) he said all that same shit about me. I don’t want to be a huge bitch to my friend, but I seriously can’t sit through another conversation like that again. More »