Reply #26: I didn't know all details of their breakup...I was under the impression

[Pachamama]

...their marriage ended a 2-3 years back and that the attempt at having more children, his training schedule, the travel schedule, his spending most of the year in his house in Spain and his wife wanting to be in Texas, etc. etc. caused the eventual realization that despite their commitment to their children and their love for eachother, that it was just different directions that their life goals and desires were going. Last year when they were at the Tour de France together, they were still trying, but many said that the marriage was pretty much over. My understanding is that Sheryl Crow came into the picture long after Lance and his wife had decided to part amicably and to be co-parents of the children they both love.

I can't lose respect for him on this issue related to his marriage...marriage, as many of us know, are complex relationships and only the two people involved know all the details and it generally takes two. I don't know him personally, but know people who do, and everyone speaks very highly of him and like I said, from what I "hear" from people, his relationship with his wife was "ending" several years ago and has been respectful and fair and he still "loves" her, but that their future is not one as a married couple.

Being "Friends" with Bu$h - that is something to lose respect over someone....My hunch though, is that that is a "one-sided" relationship and not necessarily one in which he wants to publicly tell George to shove it...