jilly said:
If something was happening in their marriage, I do hope that Michelle talked about it with friends. After the Laci case, it was my hope that any woman going through a rough time with their spouse would talk about it with others.
IF something was happening in their marriage, depending on what type of marriage they had, may determine on IF she would tell anyone.
Remember Lori Hacking? She was a lot like Michelle, yet up to the very end, she never let one soul know what was going on between her and Mark. Even that very last day at work when she ran out of the office crying because she found out there was no medical school enrollment, yet she'd already quit her job and they'd found a new place miles from home and were moving that next week. I believe she even went to a going away party and still didn't say anything.
IMHO, there was a MAJOR control issue in Laci's case, which was why Laci didn't confide in what was going on behind closed doors. Even as outgoing as she was, it was a front put up to hide what was REALLY going on.
Just because JY's friends are saying he was happy about the baby doesn't make it so. Everyone said SP was happy about the baby too. Remember, he would rush home when she was ovulating? Imagine, having to RUSH home to have sex with your wife. Then, WHILE she's pregnant he tells a relative he'd 'hoped for infertility.'
Just because JY smiles and APPEARS to be mild mannered, DOES NOT mean he was that way behind closed doors.
I have a thread I recently started in I believe the PL about a friend who was in an abusive relationship, which didn't start until AFTER the marriage. It was her situation and the things he said to her that made me recognize SP was a 'control freak' and a manipulator.
FWIW, my thread in the PL was started recently because the young woman I know who was in an abusive relationship is now setting herself free from the SOB. She finally realized he would end up killing her. I think the first clue was when he tried to strangle her and when that didn't work , he bit her over the face and tried to literally rip her throat out. Of course, it STILL took prodding by concerned friends for her to turn him in AGAIN (the other times she wouldn't follow through with it.)
This happy marriage MAY not have been so blissfull as JY's friends want us to believe. Michelle may have been hiding a very dark secret.
JMHO
fran