• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Perpetual victim. Seen it. I call it Pretty Girl Syndrome.

    “Everyone treats me like gold because I’m beautiful!”

    And then she’s shocked when anyone tells her to get bent.

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      9 months ago

      Finally some fad I can identify with, except I’m not a girl. And I’m not pretty. And I’m not Syndrome. But everybody treats me like gold (I’m heavy and malleable)

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and say that Elle Silver seems like a bitch you don’t want to be with.

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    9 months ago

    Looks like there’s some highly tarnished Silver available if anyone’s interested.

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    Ok just my opinion, so clearly there might be some flack from the community, but I am glad she writes articles like this. It seems to be her form of outlet to process her emotions, decisions and their consequences. I think that is what these articles are an account from a person who knows they are flawed, knows they do not make the right decisions but are making decisions that are against common sense and she is documenting it as she goes. It is fascinating and past the schadenfreude that her consequences have given, the handful of articles I have quickly glanced she seems to be brutality honest discussion about her decisions and her struggles with the consequences.

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      9 months ago

      reading the cheating article, it’s pretty clear these guys were gonna divorce anyway.

      It’s a mistake not to separate and tell your kids before meeting someone else, but from reading what happened it looks like their marriage deteriorated to the point of completely ignoring each others existence, she finds happiness in someone who actually likes her being around, gives her the push to finalize the divorce.

      Understandable perhaps but not exactly the right thing to do.

      The way the meme is edited it makes it look like the husband found out and kicked her out and she deserves to be poor, reading the articles it looks like the classic case of “Mother drops everything for family, Father has to be forced to continue child support after divorce and does everything he can to avoid it.”

      Which, honestly, I support. Everyone knows that’s part of marriage now, if you can’t abide by the terms of the contract, don’t enter into the legally binding partnership.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Really feels like all of these can be true at the same time. She says in the article she doesn’t promote cheating, that it was wrong, and that it didn’t fix the problems she was facing in her marriage. Divorces suck. There’s a reason they’re a flash point for manosphere grifters to latch onto. The family unit is a means of wealth redistribution. We have a system where doing the right thing and ending a shitty relationship means you now have to pay double your bills with the same income and you’re also losing tax credits and sometimes benefits.

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      Really feels like all of these can be true at the same time

      I think it’s impossible to cheat on your spouse while being a good parent. Show your kids how adults handle relationships, not teenagers.