I think that’s the thing that is so awful to contemplate - that she has kids. Considering what she did to her own sister, it’s hard not to imagine her being abusive to her kids.

You’re right that fate is not always just, but it looks like she’s at least having a harder time than we’d have thought. How she thought she could just have kids and live happily ever after as someone else, I will never know.

Me, too. If it hadn’t been for the help of so many other people, I’d have been doomed. He was relentless, and had more money than most to pay lawyers to lie for him for years. It was never going to end if I had to fight him alone. And even with tons of support, it took over five years to get free. This poor woman…

I got the feeling the school told her they’d give her a discount if she tweeted about what a great place it is.

Here’s the PBS link:

A tiara is never a mistake.

“Some form of public transport” doesn’t get everyone where they need to be, though.

Hazing is not an urban legend. Just because some stories might have been made up, doesn’t mean hazing isn’t real or horrible. In extreme cases, people have died from it. It’s hardly something that is not a real problem.

Maybe, just maybe, had she acted sooner, he might have shot her sooner. “Maybe, just maybe” is hardly good enough when you are a woman who shares children with an abusive man.

Did you miss the part that said she was in the process of leaving and already had found an apartment. And do you still not get that when a DV victim is leaving is the time a man like this is most likely to kill? As for a restraining order giving her “legal recourse”, that wasn’t going to help her after she and her…

There are reports that she accused him of being abusive, and that she was leaving him. So, maybe not money related. Or at least not mainly.

That’s a great article. Thanks. I think he describes the entire situation quite well.

Exactly. The coaches I knew who abused kids always seemed to focus most of their attention on kids they knew had troubled families. I have no doubt it was not only because those kids were more likely to want and need the care and attention from an adult, but also because those were the kids who were less likely to be…

Exactly. All the kids in my family were swimmers. There were multiple scandals involving coaches having sex with underage swimmers.

Yes, swim lessons are a good idea, but they aren’t some magic protection around water the way you try to pretend they are. Spending on whose statistics you use, one quarter to two thirds of people who drown were already considered to be good swimmers. Most are also close to a shore or pool side and/or close to other…

This is assuming she truly believed he was capable of such an act. If he’s like most abusers, he’s making threats all the time, some, if not most of which, he never carries out. My abuser has at least five guns in his home, that I know of. He threatened to “destroy” several people close to me. Every time I reported…

I read that as his being a “dark nuisnace.” I think that is also true.

Also a good interview of hers: