What Alice is doing is unconscionable. She knows this, but doesn’t care. Her pain does not allow her to let go, to accept defeat after years of her… for lack of a better word, “behavior”. We all suffer and have our breakdowns or mistakes, but we learn to let go. She can’t bear the thought that she isn’t getting her way, and she would rather writhe in pain and cause more pain to others to soothe herself than actually do the hard thing: sit with herself, accept a loss and feel it all, accept responsibility, do the emotional work and therapy, and pull her health together. It’s a lot easier to get drunk and destroy, destroy, destroy. Being strong is about picking yourself up, moving on, and loving everything you can despite the intense pain. Let go of what doesn’t serve you, all that crap. We’ve been taught this by the world since we were young. She never figured it out. She’s too… something. She will destroy and think of nothing of her pain forever and until he has suffered, the girlfriend has suffered, and unfortunately, the shrapnel will cause the children to suffer. But you can hope the children are/will be infused with the strength to carry on and seek love and healing when life throws you these terrible blows, or blows even worse, like illness and etc, things too terrible to mention. You really have no choice in this world. And unfortunately for her, her ex husband and his new girlfriend will probably eventually pick themselves up, (whether together or apart), and move on and work and love and heal again. She will not. The children, we don’t know. She is the type that will refuse any help and will only calm down when she literally doesn’t have the energy anymore and she is yelling into an empty void of nothing, or of people who have already moved on. Shades of Shanna Moakler, (who isn’t nearly as bad as Alice is despite still wearing her engagement ring from over a decade ago on social media while her ex is dominating the press with his fiancé). Alice won’t be happy with the consequences either, but she must know they’re coming. She might be hoping the courts or her ex do something that could be twisted as terrible just so she can continue to go after them and destroy their characters. I just can’t imagine even a single thought is going towards how her children are feeling. She simply doesn’t love them enough to care, or she loves herself more than even them. Her behavior is very twisted and completely awful awful awful for those children. They will not get out unscathed.
But I do agree that poor Ella is dealing with a whole lot she shouldn't have to be, and probably isn't very supervised in the evenings, so could easily be staying up late without AE realising (or frankly caring).
