I give you two thumb up on this post, AZWriter (in my head I always read that as EZRider :waitasec

. If Ron doesn't come across as the golden boy it's not for lack of effort on his mother's part. As for TN singing Misty's praises, I'm sure she was loathe to do it, but she needed Misty to complete the portrait of an upstanding, law abiding and loving, young single father and the innocent young woman who became his childbride. The goal was to avoid placing Misty under the microscope because any dirt found on Misty would reflect back on Ron and open him up to scrutiny. The wedding, the heirloom ring, pfft...all part of her strategy. It worked pretty well for awhile until NayNay spilled the beans to AH about WBG and Misty's big adventure. As those details emerged, naturally she and the family had to turn coat. Other factors led to the split, of course, but that was the major one, imo. At any rate, try as she might, TN could not keep the house of cards from falling.