T: ok that makes sense, you called the mediator, why not just call Elaine and talk to her?
MR: well I think if you listen to what Elaine said and I think you will probably kind of hear something similar to me
I don't think that either one of us to be honest with you wants to talk to the other, I think
because of the communication that we've had during the course of our divorce we don't talk to each other and and and most of our communication is done email. and the case with Dylan , ya know obviously, ya know I texted her from the marshals office when I was there expressing my concerns tot the marshal, expressing my concerns because at that point I realized that his friends hadn't seen or heard from him all day, that being said, it was just a, it was just the most , most natural way to communicate with her because I know how she is and ya know what, quite frankly we're not married anymore and I don't need her to talk to me the way she did when we were married. I'm, I'm , I'm a human, I'm a father and somebody you can sit down and have a civil conversation with
you don't need to start yelling at me..you don't need to start going off on me
ya know I certainly understand that in the large part that emotions run deep in situations like this and moms tend to be a little more vocal with their emotions and I don't have a huge problem with that until it starts becoming accusatory
and various other things and then I just shut down
its my nature, it's what I do.
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I find this paragraph interesting because he makes it sound like after he told her about their son going missing, that Elaine constantly hounded him and called and yelled at him accusingly and he just had to block her calls. But according to what we heard back at the start of this, Mark blocked her calls from the very first moment this began. He texted her from the marshals office, and NEVER spoke to her about Dylan being missing at all.
No wonder she was so frustrated with him. And it makes me wonder. Because if he was really wanting help figuring out where Dylan might be, who better to speak to than Elaine and Cory? They know the friends names and where they live and who he talks to still and some of the phone numbers. But apparently he had no interest in any of that info.