I think Sarah has developed a strategy to be able to cope with her mother’s death and that her father killed her mother. It seems that a large part of her strategy is avoidance and being able to validate or explain in some way her father’s actions. Sarah was a young woman when this happened and an only child. In my opinion her coping strategy has left her with a part of her family, her security in tact. It’s not palatable to us, but I can kind of see why she has taken this path.
MOO
I agree, just using your post to give my final thoughts in this thread.
Not everyone is accustomed to the varied coping mechanisms of a child brought up in a household which is unlike their own, and thrown into a traumatic situation not of their making, it's a revelation to them that Sarah is different from themselves.
It surprises me how many people would believe straight off the bat, that their own father had killed their mother, must be some pretty dodgy dads out there!
I can't
relate to Sarah, but I've seen this kind of reaction before and I understand it, and people find this revolting and distasteful. There are kids who are abused, punched in the guts by a parent but will protect them from the law at all costs! The parent controls their view of the world and the people in it, police are at the very bottom!
It isn't about Sarah not loving her mother, she can't/won't believe her
beloved dad killed her, not yet, anyway. Her family life from cradle to her early twenties, is. all. she. knows!
I wish people would get off her case and accept Borce is the perpetrator and she's a product of his and Karen's style of parenting, genetics and environment, the spun web of lies as the 'perfect' family, the illusion of the self-made millionaires, diamonds and tiaras, flashy cars, living the dream....
There are many people who LIVE like this, just keeping afloat with massive debts, but the illusion must be upheld.
It just happens that Borce killed Karen and we're made aware of them. He's the maker of this nightmare, he took a life, there's no one else to blame. jmo