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You're extrapolating way too much from these six texts. Like Tiger Woods is not a good person, but you're seriously just assuming way too much here even accounting for that.
These were leaked by the New York Post in December 2009, so the lack of a year indicates September 30, 2009. (Woods was cheating with Jaimee from about April 2007 to December 2009.) I can think of a million reasons why a celebrity athlete in the middle of a Wednesday might not get back to their secret love affair via text for over an hour, let alone in an era where a text message was socially even less urgent than it is today.
Unless it's obviously urgent, waiting an hour between messages is 100% normal; it's a text message.
You’re defending Tiger Woods way too much here lol
Nah, the unknownmuncher got it right before I did: if you think an hour between text messages is "the silent treatment", you need to seriously reevaluate how you treat text messages.
It’s not about the time between the texts, it’s that he only responded when she apologized.
Yeah, if there were a pattern of that, I might agree. You're taking a single data point and extrapolating way beyond reason. If you look at the rest of the texts, there's nothing to suggest he treated her like you're suggesting, and even if we didn't have those other texts, there are just a million reasons why someone might've not gotten back until that third message. You're chalking up what's exceedingly likely just a coincidence (again, it's an hour) to malice.
There's literally even another text that reads: "don’t text me back till tomorrow morning. I have to many people around me right now". Like this is an obvious problem for anyone cheating, let alone a celebrity. It was, again, the middle of a Wednesday; there's no reason to expect Woods wasn't just, like, a little busy for an hour. (Edit: I personally did this yesterday, realizing I outright forgot to reply.)
Of the things to get upset about with tiger woods, this communication thing is an odd one.
Someone makes a joke. You chuckle and go back to what you were doing, or you don't chuckle and still go back to what you were doing. They send another message that makes you realize they expected a response and took your lack of response the wrong way, so you reply telling them you knew they were joking.
Not every message needs a reply, to say nothing of an immediate one. How would you have had him reply?
Do you reply to every message immediately?
Do you think not responding until your partner says the correct thing, in this case "babe I was kidding", is healthy?
Nope, seems a bit wrong to me. I just don't see that behavior in this interchange.
No one has alleged he's that type of asshole, so I see no reason to assume he is. Not every period of silence is the "silent treatment", and responding after someone apologized isn't the same as not responding until they apologized.
He routinely drives drunk and has had multiple affairs.
But he's not that type of asshole?
That's certainly what I said isn't it?
Do you have any reason to believe he's the emotionally abusive type of asshole?
Doing something wrong doesn't mean everything they do is wrong.
Hell, we have more evidence for him being the victim of abuse than the perpetrator.
HIs multiple extramarital affairs? You don't consider cheating over and over again to be emotional abuse?
Oh we do? What are you referencing?
Extramarital affairs are bad, but they're not the same as punishing someone for a joke you don't appreciate. And not responding to a text with a joke you didn't find funny is only dubiously that.
Infidelity can be abusive if used as a tool of power, control, or harm. Not all hurtful or disrespectful acts are intrinsically abusive.
I take it you weren't paying much attention during the whole thing?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/11/why-tiger-s-not-talking-about-his-accident.html
Tldr: initial reports indicated that she hit his car and attacked him with a golf club before the crash. Police stated alcohol didn't play a role in the crash. He denied any claims of domestic violence and says she smashed both of his back windows to help him out of the car.
We don't know that's what he did, there aren't even timestamps on this. If I text you a joke now, and then don't get anything back, and then I send you a follow-up text saying "I was just joking", and then sometime after that you get back to your phone and see the joke and the follow-up, no one can assume you only texted because of the follow-up.
Maybe you got my first one and said "screw them" and waited for an apology, maybe you didn't get the first one until after the second had been sent and saw them both together and replied to both, or maybe you saw the first and went "heh" but forgot to actually respond to me in the moment, and it wasn't until after the second came through that you went "ah shit, right"
But only the receiver can know which is which.
Anyways! I don't give a shit about Tiger Woods, I just hate miscommunication and assumptions of ill-intent, and I've seen first hand too many times a person who is more connected drawing all sorts of conclusions for what a silence might mean, or how mad someone must be, or reading into a gap that simply isn't there. The receiver just is doing something, they're not on their couch staring at their phone, and the sender is spinning out all sorts of stories to explain how they're being ignored or attacked. It's anxiety.
Ah, you're all projecting and being defensive about texting. I see.
So are you.
Where did I defend him? All I said was you are projecting. Which you are. So are the people you're arguing with. He may have been leaving her on read because he was pissed like you say or he may have done it because he had other shit going on while he was texting her and got distracted. Either is a perfectly plausible explanation.
I don't hate women. Tiger Woods is an asshole. You're a hypocrite.
You're all up my ass for no reason then.
Because you're presenting one side of it as if it's the truth. Acting like "the silent treatment" is the only reason a person may be delayed in responding to a text is toxic as fuck.
I'm going to help you out a little bit here:
Do you understand what the word "seems" means in this context?
Your statement reads that he was for sure giving her the silent treatment and that doing so "seems icky".
We do not know that he was giving her the silent treatment. That was your projection.
Just stop feeding the troll.
Preceded by "I dunno" to suggest ambiguity.
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