Why is the judge hugging this woman? Why is the bailiff petting her like a puppy? What the fuck is going on with this shit?

If it makes you feel any better, Jeni was thrilled by the length of the sentence as it means he’ll never get out. https://7news.com.au/news/court-justice/woman-with-2500-personalities-ecstatic-after-dad-richard-haynes-jailed-for-45-years-c-439207

I don’t think sentencing should ever be “symbolic” either. I think you should get what you deserve regardless of your life span. I think he deserves more than 45.

I hope this helps & brings her closure in some way if that is even possible. As a survivor of abuse by an immediate family member at a young age, I know the way one fractures and breaks oneself to cope. To hear how very fractured she had to make her self survive is just gut wrenching. I can’t even begin to fathom how…

“Like bedbugs on your wedding day”

See, mine is black, with a green hood (the color of dollar bills  y’all), because I’m the Third Columnist insurgent force you hear so much about.

Red and yellow feel like pretty obvious choices.

“Did I see careers?  I meant career.  My career.  Fuck the rest of you.”

I would frame that email and put it up in my office just like I framed the printout from the College Republicans website at a previous university that declared me a “communist indoctrinator.”

This is key in cases like these these were well to do ppl. The doctor mother lived in a million dollar home so access to good health was clearly not an issue. Maybe it was the stigma....

I have a sneaking suspicion that she hated her husband more than she loved her children. 

People that do this are called “family annihilators” and it’s usually men. It’s super fucking weird that the kids were grown and the divorce isnt recent. My experience and bias leads me to guess that she was probably very controlling and her adult children tried to set some boundaries. Those kids seem a bit on the old…

The husband asked for a wellness check on the son because he suspected something was off.

Murder suicide is hard for most to wrap your heads around. I felt the same way until I had kids and battled severe depression. I know when I am suicidal it hurts so much to think about leaving your family behind and the pain you are about to put them through, the thoughts of taking them with sometimes will come. It’s…

Since this is murder/suicide, it obviously has more to it than just the mother not wanting to live anymore. Usually this type of thing is done by a mother with small children, who tend to think they are actually helping their children by killing them.

I remember a case where a woman shot and killed her daughters and herself because her husband was leaving her - the woman told her husband outright, as she was doing it, that she was doing it to punish him. This mentions her ex-husband; I wonder if this is a similar thing?

Finally, a priest I can really get behind.

My thoughts exactly. This guy should write a book about debauchery on a budget. He could be a prophet for our times!

Read the "No Longer Quivering" blog - it's full of (mostly) women telling their stories of how they got involved with and eventually left (mostly) christian patriarchy groups. it's under the "NLQ stories" tab. It's important to know that there ARE christian religious cults, and they're not always obvious to outsiders.