This picture of George just breaks my heart! I just do not understand how he manages to maintain what he must do to stay with Cindy and carry this grief with him at the same time. Surely this man's mind will break wide open with the loss of Caylee and the truth he carries of Casey's guilt.
I think he has to maintain denial and stay with cindy because it's all he knows. This is such a dysfunctional family. Rivalry between mother and daughter for Lee's affection, for George's affection, probably for male attention in general, and of course for Caylee's affection. Then of course, jealousy on the part of casey towards Caylee for getting anyone's attention because all of that should go to casey.
Reading the posts I find so many very intuitive and knowledgeable people who really have this family figured out. I guess that's what happens when intelligent people immerse themselves in a case. I can't count how many times I thought "Exactly!" when reading a post on this thread.
To hopefully add to those posts, I think George is the most sincere of the whole lot but I also think he fits the pattern of the typical, passive male married to a person with a serious personality disorder. He lets her rule and determine how they act and even feel, possibly because he lacks something, perhpas some inner confidence, I don't know.
But, I feel sorry for him even though I can see he does not believe his own statements.
By the way, I think there have been talks at home, at least in the beginning, about the reality of the situation, with George, perhaps, blowing up and screaming about what he thinks casey has done. But, as time went on and the reality proved too painful to bear, he just sunk back into the family pattern of nutty behavior, denial, performance, etc. Breaking from dysfunction by breaking out of one's role in that dysfunction is very, very difficult and scary, even when one knows that at the end, life will be better once the split is made. But for George, at the end is only the reality of what his daughter did, the fact that he will never have her or his precious ray of sunshine (Caylee) back again, that he and his family will forever more be known as the family of the murderer and that he and his wife's actions in enabling or creating the monster that is casey, have greatly contributed to Caylee's demise in one way or another. I really get why he keeps up the charade.
As for cindy, that's a whole other story, IMO. I think George will be devastated when casey is found guilty, but deep inside he will know the right verdict has come down. I don't think anything is more important to cindy at this point than keeping face. It's all she has. And I don't think she will ever feel, even way deep down, that justice for Caylee is more important than the lie she is living. But, that's JMO based on what I know thus far.
jmho...
