I read this article today and was pretty confused too- Parts of it were informative and even fair, but others were just absurd. I’m glad you commented on this! I didn’t even fully gather what was so bitter about Labrie’s life, other than having divorced parents. And then that description of the girl.... dear god, that…

Poor, poor rapist/athlete. :-(

Shepherd didn’t lose her custody case over her other child, Jeffrey. She maintained full custody. So I’m not sure what you’re on about there.

I don’t know, this situation is majorly messed up. Usually, I might feel as you do, but I’m really on the fence. It sounds like the ex orchestrated the pregnancy as a means to get money from her—like she was duped into agreeing to it.

I heard that she found out that the surrogate was her ex-husband’s girlfriend, and they were involved the entire time. Not sure if that’s true though.

Yes I do, I have severe depression and anxiety from ptsd from an abusive childhood.

Yeah it was kind of like munchhausens by proxy if anything. Seriously, I’ve read all the texts between them and she wouldn’t even pretend to have a normal conversation with him. It was all about how he was planning to kill himself, and why hadn’t he done it yet. This definitely wasn’t 2 suicidal teenagers bonding over…

Who was the person receiving that message? I have to think that if I, even as a dumb teenager, received a message from a friend about how she was encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself, I would be pretty disturbed.

Yeah, I could believe a one-off response of “ok well do it already” was a (misguided) attempt at tough love, maybe thinking he would break the cycle of suicidal ideation if she could get him to admit he didn’t want to go through with it.

I don’t live in Mass, but in a former life I was a reporter who covered local court cases. A friend of mine sent this one along to me and I have followed it ever since. It is alarmingly obvious that she slowly eroded his inhibitions down to the point where he acted on taking his own life.

I understand that mental…

I’m wondering if it’s possible she was acting out of some sort of wish-fulfillment. If she does turn out to have had a history of suicidal thoughts it’s possible that she was acting vicariously through Conrad. Or it could be a sort of Munchausen’s by Proxy situation, where she was anticipating the attention she would…

My only guess would be some sort of Munchausen by proxy thing. She wanted all the attention when she became the sad girl who’s boyfriend killed himself. That’s the best I got.

CONRAD: Like, why am I so hesitant lately. Like two weeks ago I was willing to try everything and now I’m worse, really bad and I’m LOL not following through. It’s eating me inside.

I remember reading the details of this a few months back and thinking, “What in all the fucks?”

I don't understand your comment.

I understand that you think you know the inner mind of a woman who was tragically killed 1997 at the time of her engagement 1981. It is a very curious thing that you think you can understand the thoughts of a long-dead stranger and that you trust your conjecture over interviews and intimate biographies. I have to…

Diana was a teenager and he was 31. She had led a sheltered life and really believed she loved him, and that he loved her. He was dating her older sister at one point but she was deemed more suitable (read: virginal) so he pursued her at his family’s urging. She was shocked to find out right before the wedding the…

You are free to believe anything you like about anyone, living or dead. I’ve read multiple biographies of Lady Diana Spencer, and by all accounts from people who knew her best, your take is inaccurate.

What a load of bollocks. And please learn the difference between England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Can we not joke about Camilla’s looks? I mean come on.