This is my opinion only based on my own life experience with my parents. Please do not attack me as what I have to say will not be popular.
MR and my dad could be twins. ER and my mom have the same fiery attitude. I recorded both shows and just sat and watched them back to back. Here is what I got from it.
MR:
1. Like my father, MR is narcissistic. He doesn't like to be wrong, to be scolded, told what to do or to be backed into a corner. Those things will just push him away from doing what is right because he is hard wired to believe that no one can force him to do anything, even if it would take away speculation of his involvement. To a person like this they say to others that they know the truth and they don't care if you believe it or not. That however, does NOT make him guilty of harming or hiding his son. He may have a hair trigger temper, as both my father and I have and he may have physically fought with his ex-wives, but that does not mean he killed his child. From the very beginning all blame has been pointed his direction. That's a heavy weight to bear innocent or guilty. From experience I can usually perceive when a narcissist is lying or stretching the truth. I also know the games of master manipulators and I can tell you in my opinion he isn't the only one playing games. I actually would be MORE suspect if he walked in eager TO take the test, because a narcissist will believe they can beat the test whether they are innocent or not.
2. Like my father, MR rarely shows emotion. In fact my own husband is exactly the same way. I married a carbon copy of my dad apparently and that in itself is disconcerting. Regardless, again, this does not mean he is guilty of what he has been accused of. He is the type of person who internalizes everything and rarely if ever shows a glimpse of how he feels. My dad when scared or nervous reacts with anger and authority instead of emotion. I think I've seen him cry once in my entire life. He can be critical, suspicious and cruel but he still loves us and has done whatever he can to make amends for the way he behaved when he was younger and I was a little girl.
ER:
1. In her own way ER is similar only she emits emotion and rage. She reminds me of myself before I started therapy. She puts forth convincing statements with force behind them in an effort to influence others to agree with her line of thinking. I believe she is still furious with Mark over incidences in their marriage and she allows that rage to cloud over any other possibility as to what may have happened to Dylan. I found it very telling when she said "why am I always the one to blame". IMO she is manipulating the situation as much or more by dragging past digressions into the present to show that she was victimized by MR. Because of this I could easily say that either one of them, ER or MR could have taken part in whatever happened with Dylan as a means to get back at one another and prove who has the ultimate control.
So basically my opinion has not changed. Either they are both innocent and Dylan was abducted by someone other than a family member OR one if them HUD Dylan for revenge. The only feasible scenario where I could see that MR hurt Dylan is if it were accidental. I realize my opinion and theories are hard to swallow yet since I have lived amongst people with these type of personalities all of my life I feel confident enough with my "gut feeling" to say it's a 50/50 split. I personally do t think either one of them had anything to do with it and I wish they'd stop bickering like school kids and poisoning other family members perceptions with their bitter hatred of each other do something to find their son together. There's a whole lot if hinky going on in this case but it isn't all coming from MR.
I'm sorry if people do not like that I feel differently about this case and sine may feel like I am blind or delusional. That doesn't matter to me. What matters is finding Dylan So why can't they BOTH put their differences aside and do something productive in finding their son that doesn't invoke fundraising etc. I personally feel they are bith at fault for the way thus case has been handled. It's a shame.
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