Rachaellouise, I hear ya. I felt very sorry for her in the beginning, and was hoping and praying that she would allow her friends and family to influence her decision to stay with the creep.
But lately I'm losing sympathy for her. Maybe because she had the gift of being back with her mom and breaking things off, and she threw it away. Maybe because I see her living off the system one day, unwed, pregnant and unproductive. Maybe because I know she will get knocked up and destroy any chances for her child to know and be loved by both sets of grandparents (let alone being raised by a healthy father).
It's either absolute defiance and indifference, or she's completely brainwashed by this pedophile. And if she is under his spell, I am angry and frustrated that the time alone with her family was not enough to repell this cockroach. I can only hope that at least a seed of doubt was planted during that time.
You make a good point about the relationship going public put a lot of pressure on her. And children at this age naturally want to separate themselves from their parents and be independent. Bad combination. But I'd like to believe, deep down, somewhere is a little bit of embarrassment and guilt over this. If she's normal, there has to be. That's the part I hope her mom can bring forward. By any means. She's a victim, but is also playing the adult "other woman" and is becoming less and less sympathic every day IMO.
When he goes to jail, I wonder what she'll do. If she goes home to mom, will she still declare her love and vow to wait for him? Will she sneak off to visit him in prison and continue to put her mom through that hell? Or will she stay at his apartment and live off food stamps and interviews until the press doesn't care anymore? In either of these senarios I feel despair for the mother, and his wife and kids. I hope I'm wrong.
