gitana1
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Let's hope this is the case. Imagine only talking to a teenager for two weeks. Even though he clearly enjoys conversations with teenagers, it has to get old after awhile.
Not for a child molesting predator. They live for this. Having a young teen as a literal captive audience is their dream.
For sure. Talking to only ONE person for two weeks would get old no matter who the person is.That's why my husband goes for runs alone and I read by the pool alone when we go on vacation...so we stay married.
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You and your husband are normal adults. Not a predator and a teen victim. NONE of the normal rules apply.
I agree with those who feel ET is likely scared and just trying to survive. Oh, she may be telling herself that she wants to be there, but I feel positive that she doesn't. She is likely very confused and scared. he has her just where he wants her. He is controlling everything and calling the shots.
He may be using a host of manipulative and coercive techniques to keep her submissive. Everything from talking about how she has no one who will protect her, that her family hates her, she will be placed back with her abusive mother, that no one stopped the abuse of her mother because they don't care, that all her peers and the faculty are against her, that she will be bullied, that it is us against them...to menacing hints or outright threats. All of this is completed by keeping her isolated and dependent on him for everything.
And TC is loving every last minute of it.
It surprises me that so many people compare themselves and how they would react in this situation, to TC and ET. This is no vacation with hubby or the kids. This is a volatile and extremely dangerous situation with an unhinged, likely very armed predator who has zero to lose, having given up his job, his livelihood, his marriage, his family, his reputation, his position in the community, his status in his church and his freedom, to commit this horrible crime and kidnap a young, vulnerable teen girl.
This ain't gonna' end with him dropping her off at a local Chik-fil-A because she chatters too much, IMO.
And frankly, I doubt she's chattering much at all anyhow.
Is anyone else sensing a degree of socioeconomic class discrimination going on here on the part of the school (and perhaps also by other members of the community) in terms of how ET (and her family by extension) were perceived and subsequently treated?
Yes. It's possible.