Shocking?! Hardly.

I cannot help but talk about this. It seems all the men I know are in an uproar. The women, not so much.

Tiger Woods is just a man.

That's not an indictment; it's a statement of fact. I'm surprised so many of us are surprised at the recent turn of events. A man was unfaithful to his family.

Deplorable? Yes. Reprehensible? Yes. Surprising? Not even a little bit.

When the story first broke, my instinct told me there was about to be some drama. His wife broke the winshield with a golf club and pulled him from the wreck?

Seriously?

Jokingly, I told my Sweetie, Elin caused that accident when she swung that club at his head and struck the windows. She took a lesson from Jazmine Sullivan and, literally, busted the windows out his car. To date, Elin Woods has seemed rather bland to me. Her reaction is the only thing that shocked me.

Where is a married man going at 2:00 a.m.? No report of sick babies. There's no way Tiger drives himself to the airport. It's too dark to practice his golf swing or putting. Oh, yeah, there's definately about to be some drama.

It's not that I have a low opinion of men -- I don't. I do, however, have a realistic opinion of men.

A regular guy, with a regular job, and a regular life, is tempted to stray outside his marriage, regularly.

An extraordinary guy, with an extraordinary job, and an extraordinary life, is tempted to stray outside his marriage, extraordinarily.

Men who have achieved extraordinary success -- Tiger Woods, David Letterman, Michael Jordan, Hugh Hefner -- have done so because they are driven to succeed. I would also guess they have extraordinarily high levels of testosterone. So, when they are driven to overachieve in the area of sexual conquests or prowess, why are we surprised?

We should admire Tiger for his golfing abilities and discipline as an athlete. But, to put him on a pedestal as a shining example of a husband, is to set yourself up for disappointment.

Sadly, the Woods' will have to work out this most intimate situation in plain view of the entire world. Marriage is hard enough for us regular folks. We, at least, get to work our problems out in relative anonymity.