Do you think IG looks at AE now and feels a pang of sadness? Not because he wants to get back with her, but just sheer bewilderment and horror at what she has become, both personality wise and physically. The mother of his kids. She was always strong meat, IG’s engagement story is testament to that, but even then she was nothing like she is now. Those photos of her on the floor, thinking she is being alluring, are actually disturbing. Epic levels of self-delusion.
I have inquired about this before, and it’s an excellent question you raise here. I really do wonder if he pities her, along with feeling extremely bewildered about how much she has changed.
Don’t get me wrong, here—I know he has seen an upsetting, cruel side of her behind closed doors in the past, of course. But THIS? I can’t imagine he has ever witnessed THIS before, because I don’t believe he has ever gone this far in disobeying her wishes before.
Remember when she shit-talked celebrities’ outfits on the Red Carpet via Twitter one year, and he went off on a lecture about how “this isn’t the woman I married”? Well, holy CHRIST, how does she appear to him now, after all of this utter chaos and vengeance and deceit? I wonder if he finds her nearly unrecognizable now.
I do think it takes a lot for lovers to feel absolutely no pity or sadness for their ex-partners. I believe there is often even the thinnest strand of sorrow, of comparison between who that ex-partner used to be (the fun times, specifically), and who they have become, or rather, how they have revealed their true selves.
Ioan was not completely miserable throughout the entirety of their marriage, which I think is something upon which we can all comfortably agree. He had many good times with her. They shared many beautiful memories. And I think, based on how Ioan presents his gentle character to the public, he might still have lingering sorrow about this, about this woman turned raging animal.
As you said, Tea, he certainly must not want her hand again, but I can’t help but feel that due to his often forgiving nature, there may be a part of him—however tiny or on the brink of completely fading away—that pities her. She has totally spiraled, and it’s possible to dislike your ex-partner for their behavior, to be infuriated with them…and to still hold those bits of pity and dismay.
(quick selfie session in between vomiting and the river of blood running from her nose)
