“Try six months.” She had a bleeping nanny and housekeeper. She hasn’t ever done the daily grind of parenting, but she can belittle Ioan.
I have never really understood why he married her. If it had been a whirlwind relationship, maybe, but after 8 years, he must have realised what a deeply fucked up and nasty person she was.
I think he knew he was making a mistake, but their 2 personalities were a toxic mess.
Ive never seen wedding photos which are so miserable. Ioan looks diminished in his too big suit, Alice looks angry
She would have perpetrated the lie of the “perfect”relationship. Thank God Ioan decided he couldn’t do that anymore.
For some reason there are very few photos too, which is kind of strange. I remember that story about them "having to redo photos because of paps" (?!?!) or something like that, but its strange that most in circulation - group with mAlice and fag, dragging to altar, her lead to altar by brothers, them on the beach with her holding veil - are not very good photos, as in not everybody looking to their advantage. Which to mAlice is of course nothing as long as she looks good. But still - why so few? Everything is weird about this wedding, same as everything is weird about mAlice
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Yes, all the while saying, "It's utter utter utter defamation".
She would have puked in Bernal's office though, as she not allowed to take home the evaluation report.
As in a bribe? Possibly in the sense that they don't want her to be evicted in the middle of the evaluation and hearings and use that to stall things. If IG has any sense, he will want to claw back what he overpaid her though.
Not so much a bribe, but more like (very primitively putting it) "here is your money, but if we get so much of a word out of you, it stops and you get sued". But I dont know if its even possible legally. Bribes Im sure wont work on someone like her because would increase her sense of having the power. A combination of potential financial benefit with potential serious consequences if not playing ball might. But its all speculation of course, just spending time till court date guessing
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I have said it before but Alice had many periods, most notably actually early on in the separation, where she was capable to zip it publicly, and every time we later found out that she just upped her abuse behind the scenes instead. She probably would run a more public approach without the Restraining Order, and the fact that her alts were running practically non-stop from may until the evaluation started (plus her propaganda over the DM) just shows that this approach isn't necessarily because she has become clever, she is just more scared. But this approach to go from being very public to very silent is nothing new for her, those waves have been common so far. I don't know if it's "strategy" (i.e. she starts zipping it whenever Ioan opens the purse) or if it's simply a addict that tries to move on, relapsing into old patterns every time.
I remember you said she had quiet periods before (I do listen!
) but to me this one feels a bit different, although Im not sure why, probably just me being a bit more involved/ aware of evaluation and being curious
But also
BIB - that makes sense. And in my view is very possible! It could also coincide with her drinking relapse or whatever she is taking..