It looks like he had been trying to withdraw from the relationship for quite a while and she knew this.
If she’s been heavily drinking for a couple of years then it must be starting to take its toll now, especially whisky. This might explain some of her more erratic behaviour. I guess it’s easy to advise as an onlooker, but she could do with a spell in a detox/ addiction facility with some decent therapy. Then she could put this behind her and focus on her future and her children in a healthier way.
By trying to destroy him, she is trying to destroy her and the girls future to. If he doesn’t earn, then none of them have an income. She has spiralled down into a really horrible pit and I guess IE is probably too scared of his own reputation and future to reach out compassionately to help.
I’m very confused as to why commenters are failing to absorb how difficult it can be to live with a partner who clearly has a substance abuse addiction. Drinking whisky and taking pills, threatening suicide, no boundary issues, cleaning up after her embarrassing behaviors, posting inappropriate videos”like the one where she asked if Ioan and five year old Elsie needed to get a room because they couldn’t stop hugging” after him being gone?
I’m not advocating cheating, having experienced it multiple times myself. But I can see why IG couldn’t stay in the marriage anymore, although I truly believe he tried. AE herself said she had been through 4 therapists at the time IG left her. If I can locate the receipts showing how long there was a problem with their marriage I’m going to post them. And it was long before Harrow.
Like Plinky mentioned it’s hard to leave a long relationship and marriage that has children, hard to admit you fell out of love, It’s actually horrible. But if you have a deep friendship to begin with and a mutual respect for one another you can make it through and find something deeper. But if there is no respect for one another that’s off the table. Which there obviously isn’t.
I’m sure IG could be grumpy. He mentioned himself that he was like that after going out and drinking the night before. He said his girls noticed. So he stopped. Alice didn’t.
Their marriage was doomed from the start for various reasons I won’t get into. I’m not team IG. I’m team fair and logical.
People cheat all the time. Not just men. Good looking actors”this includes Alice” cheat more often. It’s not right but it’s not criminal and it’s infinitely human. In my opinion people should not get married.
And it’s well past the time that Alice should get her act together if she truly loves her two angels that she professed to do right by if it was all she ever does. A quote by AE from the Daily Mail.
I think Alice's holding her head so weirdly because, she's maybe conscious of the double chins and/or is anxious.
She doesn't seem completely "straight" either, but that could be medication, drink? It makes me fear for her travelling to the UK, actually. She doesn't want to humiliate herself even further. I feel really sorry for her.
In addition to the double chins she could have tardive dyskinesia. A reaction to some antidepressants.