Anyway not to be alone together!
Oh that makes me so sad for Victoria.I actually think David is emotionally abusive and distant like he got what he wanted from her (job done) and now discarded.
I think he just makes her feel massively insecure and not appreciated and I still think it's something that partially triggered her eating disorder.
The man is frigging toxic imo and no I can't stand the creepy way he invades his daughter's personal space (because that's what he is doing) it's called emotional incest Dave! (See Liz Hurley and Damian for another example and various other celebs)
Grooming his daughter by making her the golden child (and chip off the old block just like daddy because narcissists can't give you love but only their own reflection as exhibited by others) so she's the special and chosen one....and their are no boundaries because she is seen as an extension of her father and it's all ego based not love?
Love would give children freedom and space to develop in their own time and to discover themselves what their passions are?
As it is I think all of their kids are assigned roles to place and surprise surprise Harper's role is that of daddy's girl except it's not the usual dad doting on his daughter because it's too close for comfort and i am sorry the way he nuzzles her neck and drapes himself around her like a cobra is both suffocating and disturbing!
Also looking into the camera with that creepy smug face of his makes me want to puke!
It's like he's proud of himself because he can get away with doing whatever he feels like and his daughter trusts him so she won't object (not yet anyway because she doesn't know any different)?
Sorry folks for going off on one but I have been in a similar situation with my own daughter and you know sadly it's more commonplace than people realise.I nearly got divorced over this because my needy emotional vampire of a husband just couldn't resist getting my daughter on side and also neglecting the 3 boys (Yeap same as Victoria here daughter being the youngest)!
So I feel for her and I understand how it happens (slowly) and yeah there are elements of them both being good dad's (or seeming to be) love of cooking in touch with the feminine side both attentive to their daughters but the problem is that they take it too far?
Like they don't know when to rein it in? The adoration of a young girl who hangs on their every word plus a wife who is peri menopausal and they are emotionally distant from is just too tempting?
I also think that's why in a similar way Victoria also became too close to her boys (it's like an echo of David) except and this is a big difference she will have done it because she is lonely?
David has done it because he's greedy and controlling and on a (smug) power trip.
Disgusting self satisfied vacuous egotistical prat who cares if you can kick a ball around a field (not that well either)! I think that deep down inside he's secretly glad if his sons are dunces so that they won't be competition for him!
He is also happy imo for his wife to starve herself to oblivion or bury herself in heaps of mindless activity just so he isn't haunted by the ghost she has become.
Meanwhile he has his young daughter all too himself and isn't he happy because of that!
Again Mark of a narcissist they always seek to isolate! Feeding off empathic supply which as his daughter she will give to him!
Again I will say it for me he's nothing more than an emotional abuser and tyrant and I think Victoria has always tried to save face and force it to work but it never really will because his heart isn't in the whole charade that's because he doesn't have a heart to begin with!