LSA Aught One

October 4th, 2022 at 3:35 PM ^

Rough times, but best decision I ever made.  I liken it to Grad School.  You hate it at first, but you really learn all the stuff you need to know to succeed.  My divorce taught me who I was and what things I was willing to accept.  Second marriage is incredible.  We are super compatible and both came into it with eyes wide open.  We were both able to say "This is who I am and what I want".  Highly recommend it, if necessary.

Joined: 08/24/2011

MGoPoints: 28430

MMBbones

October 4th, 2022 at 3:27 PM ^

Yeah, it's a problem we all wish we had, but it still is an actual problem that never ends well:

"I've got girls outside my window
And girls outside my door
I've got girls just dying to take the clothes off...
And I got a house in every city;
I got so much to lose.
I got everything any guy could want...."

I actually feel sorry for everyone concerned. Tom has a >50% chance of retiring with many regrets. May it not be so.

Joined: 08/28/2008

MGoPoints: 9990

Amazinblu

October 4th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^

I've never gone through a divorce; however, I have several good friends who have.  It's not something I would wish upon anyone.

Hoping it's as amicable as it can be - and, if resolving their issues is a possible outcome - it's the one that I would wish for.

Joined: 01/22/2010

MGoPoints: 42119

UMForLife

October 4th, 2022 at 4:03 PM ^

I love TB but have to make marriage a priority. He has nothing else to prove. Hate to see this happen. Hope he puts away his ego and patch things up. It is not too late and hope it is not something else. 

 

Joined: 11/04/2013

MGoPoints: 63393

Kermits Blue Key

October 4th, 2022 at 4:18 PM ^

The NFL isn’t MLB where you can be on the road for weeks at a time. Do practices and one game a week really make a marriage impossible? If the dude can play, let him play. There will still be many years of retirement even if TB retires three years from now. Something else must be going on.

Joined: 09/04/2010

MGoPoints: 15268

Perkis-Size Me

October 4th, 2022 at 5:17 PM ^

I'm guessing you don't have kids.....

If it was just the two of them and there were no kids in the picture, then it might work. But when you're missing a lot of birthdays, holidays, first words, first bike rides, first school plays, first ballet recitals, first baseball games, first everythings, it wears on the other parent. A lot. And you're leaving them to do almost all of the parenting, if not all of it. Brady has mentioned it in a couple of press conferences as well as his Man in the Arena documentary. Just because he plays one day a week, it doesn't mean that he hasn't missed a lot. He's had almost no fall/winter holidays with his family in the last 20-25 years. 

Yes, yes, Gisele can undoubtedly afford all the nannies that money can buy, but that wouldn't be the point. The point is that he's not around, he can't seem to step away from the game, and he's 45 years old. He's running around with guys less than half his age, and one hit can derail or destroy a lot of things he has left to look forward to in his life. 

She wanted him to get the hell out while he was on top, already the established GOAT for years, maybe decades to come, and while he's still got his health. He didn't do that. I can understand why that would cause her to re-evaluate their relationship. 

Joined: 11/30/2011

MGoPoints: 106006

lilpenny1316

October 4th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^

It's sad purely from a family standpoint. With all the money they have accrued, they could have traveled the solar system with their kids for decades. Considering Tiger and MJ, arguably the GOATs of their sport, ended up divorced, I wonder if there's something mentally that makes these dudes so driven on the field that they just can't process the off field life in a healthy manner. 

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