I go back and forth on how I feel about the whole situation.
Imagine it honestly, your husband starts pulling away, not wanting sex, sleeps in a different room, hates having pictures taken with you, always seems annoyed by you, then he breaks up with you… ok this happens. But to then have it all played out on the internet and in newspapers and seeing him with his new love, how horrible!
It must feel to her like he died that day he left, so in a way I get why she’s clinging on, desperate.
This would be a really really sad thing to happen to anyone.
The thing is there is so much more to what actually happened between AE and IG.
For example we now have clear evidence that there has been emotional and verbal abuse at the least (and that's not a small thing in any way!), and there has been speculation that IMO isn't far off what could be true about physical violence. All from Alice directed at Ioan. Not two way abuse,
one way.
We have evidence of multiple boundary erosions or boundary violations such as the multiple photos in a state of undress which he had repeatedly asked she not share with the world -
side note, I find the reposting of those photos here really distasteful, if there were pics of me naked on the internet and I asked people not to share them I would be very upset to know they were being shared for others titillation on a gossip forum - sorry! Just my opinion and not trying to police, which is why I've made the font tiny!
We have the weaponizing of the children and parental alienation of the children, which is classed as
child abuse which to me suggests Alice displayed other problematic behaviours concerning the children during the relationship (because she has no issue crossing this boundary I assume it just doesn't exist for her which I don't think is an unreasonable assumption) and that would have been a factor in IG leaving too.
ETA: Arguably we have evidence of those problematic behaviours regarding the girls with the tweets shown earlier
All of this we have only ever heard at all because
Alice shared it, making a great concerted effort to ensure the news got to everyone she could get it to and keep it in the forefront of peoples minds for as long as she possibly could. Not out of pain, but
Narc rage as shown by basically every thing she has said and done since.
So far as I can see on the other side for Ioan:
He did what he could to save the marriage.
He took advice and stuck to it regarding leaving and escaping abusive marriages.
He is doing what he can lawfully to ensure his children are protected.
He is trying to move on and heal with his life.
I can't really fault him so far personally. I'm sure he can be an arse. I'm sure being married to him wasn't a bed of roses. I don't personally rate him as an actor or find him attractive (
at all sorry!) so I don't think I have an unconscious bias and in fact if I am honest about it I think I skirt dangerously close to misandry in my outlook at times
Anywhoo sorry
@omgucnt just sharing my thoughts on your post, much love sisTurd
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ETA: missed words and a small paragraph