My, my, friends. You've been so busy composing the most interesting information and speculation. Thank you!
I've enjoyed a few cocktails because it's my birthday and only drink alcohol about twice a year so I hope this post makes sense. All of this is my own opinion with a few facts in the mix.
RE: Barry's failed baseball career
I think Barry was thrilled he was chosen in the draft. The only reason he moved his um to Canada was because there was a $20,000 signing bonus involved. Otherwise, he could care less about the sport. It was his father's dream; not his own. jmo
I don't think his father gave him a dime for mad money spending. I recall stories of Barry selling beaver tails or turkey breasts and in the winter he sold bales of hay and raked pine straw while in high school. Didn't he sell used golf balls he found on the golf course at night?
This is a man who loves the great outdoors and knows more about certain parts of nature than most of us would ever care to know. Didn't he kill his pet squirrel when its tail was bushy enough to sell for profit? He knows how to make a buck.
Let me be clear. I adore a working man. I wish I'd married a man who carried a lunch pail and worked hard nine hours a day and came home to dance with me in the kitchen. Instead, I married a highly intelligent narcissistic sociopath who wore a suit to work. He managed to hide his true nature for several years.
The remainder of the marriage was like walking on broken glass. I stayed for my daughter's sake and hoped to leave when she graduated but waited until she was out of college so she'd have a "home" to come to on the weekends. Huge decision that caused me great C-PTSD. Had a major panic attack the other day that lasted nearly three hours. It came out of the blue for I haven't spoken to him since the day I escaped, over 20yrs ago, which took major secretive planning. Unlike Suzanne, I knew my life was in danger.
X called late one night to tell me he was holding the Glock to his head. I said, "So... whatcha want to do that for?" By that time, I was disconnected from the marriage.
Let me tell everyone reading here that when a narcissistic man threatens suicide with a gun pointed at his own head, then he can become a homicidal maniac without thinking of consequences as long as he wins. He wins all the money, the business, the house, the vehicles, the child.
That's what Barry wanted. He wanted to win. He knew Suzanne was the unique doll whom everyone that met her adored. She was the rose among thorns. He wanted to win when she wanted to leave. His only thoughts were killing her in order to stop her because if she left him, that would mean he lost. He would be a loser. He is a loser.
He murdered that sweet lady in the cruelest fashion imaginable. JMO He used a tranquilizer dart. Whether or not he had to chase her in order to inject her, I don't know. But, I do know Suzanne knew sheer terror in her final moments on earth.
If she was ever rude to him, then he deserved it because being mean was not her nature. She was in love with life, her children and in love with the thought of being free from Barry. She deserved to be free but he stole that from her. He's a thief.
Barry wanted to win the money, the business, the house, the vehicles, the children.
Narcissists think they are perfect yet they are highly critical of others. Barry taught conned their children into believing he was perfect. He taught conned their children into believing that Suzanne was flawed in her thinking. That's where we are today. When those precious children hear the prosecutors lay out the extraordinary evidence of a father who chased his wife with a poisonous dart in order to end her life, they may be crushed by the dastardly scheming. Humans don't survive well, much less thrive, once evil enters their lives.
Yet, I'm prepared for them to still believe in him even when my heart knows they will lose if they don't break those ties that bind. I hope one day they will walk away like I did and never speak to him again. jmvhoo
This is only my opinion. It is only my speculation based on a painful marriage and blessed for the very happy life I have today because I turned away from an evil doer and never looked back. Cheers to a Conviction!
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