Elin Nordegren wants to save her marriage to Tiger Woods. While the media highly suspected that Elin would file for divorce once the world found out about Tiger‘s philandering, it appears she wants to stay with him for the children.

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more Tiger and Elin after the hop…

A source close to the family told People.com that Elin wants her son and daughter to grow up with a father:

Elin wants a solid family life,” a Florida source tells PEOPLE. “She was a child of divorce and felt her dad slighted her. She absolutely does not want that to happen to Sam and Charlie. So she wants to keep her family together even if she and Tiger live together as friends instead of lovers.”

Tiger is fine with this. He’s just concerned with going back to work and helping the public forget about his 20 or so indiscretions.

Tiger wants to go back to being a golf star with major endorsements,” the insider tells PEOPLE. “He wants his clients, who have kids of their own, to think he is a good family man. He had hoped all along that his wife’s initial furor would die down so they could discuss the situation and behave rationally.”

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