One of the things I like most about this forum is being pushed to consider new evidence or re-examine my own theories. I've genuinely learnt so much from joining and laughed at your 'theory of the day' quip.
I read Val's posts too and it gives me a fuller understanding of what is behind some of the frustration on certain evidence disputes. Part of the reason the camera planting stuff seems wrong to me is that it is based on another Arias lie in the interview room. I hate her lies. Yet I see that some people don't want to acknowledge Travis had sex with her voluntarily because she is so despised. None of us want to think of her near him in that intimate way. No one here wants to give her an inch or any claim to him because she is a monster.
I see no evidence whatsoever of planting the pics. The evidence supports they were taken from Travis' camera, not transferred. I think he enjoyed sex with her but hated himself for doing so much of the time. Travis' human flaws make him more real to me, not less. The last goodbye session perhaps seemed like a springboard to a new start. How sad is that? And how creepy the thought of her hiding in his house, reading his journal.
The quote you finished with from Juan strikes a chord. I wish he was free to say much much more.
No. My resistance to believing he had sex with her that day has never had anything to do with my own emotions about the or Travis.
At first, as in 2 years ago, I believed he let her in the door because he felt guilty for his harshness on May 26, and he totally, voluntarily had sex with her.
After finally having access to all his texts, Dec 07 - June 08, and after having read them over and over and made timelines until I was cross-eyed, I know for myself that is wrong.
The cycle Travis refers to on May 26 is evident in the texts. She does something psycho or pushes his buttons or invades his privacy and he gets angry. She plays at apology and is sweetness and light, he feels bad (including about himself) and says sorry, she does it again.
That cycle was broken by May 22. He didn't fall into angry anymore- even told her that ("I'm not angry, but you need to put in writing what you did"). He was past that, because he was seeing her clearly.
More to the point, he did not initiate contact with her again after May 22. Ever. He WAS done with her, even before May 26, when she pushed him past his breaking point, intentionally.
The record says other than what you are saying. Fact is, Travis did not apologize to her as he had always done before, because he felt no need to, because he was really really done with her.
Don't you believe he meant what he wrote on May 26 about hating her and the pain he expressed ? Don't you believe him when he told Regan he was scared of her? This alpha, ultra confident man admitting that to a woman? I believe him.
And I don't believe that man was tempted by her on June 4. At all. Which is why the sex as protection against her idea of yours fits.