I can't see any issue with posting this that I looked at last night in trying to understand why JG is so ensnared with BB.
I looked at the typical sites which explain why women stay with abusers but the JG & BB situation seems such an extreme case.
Naturally I am mindful that it is silly to try and guess at what she is suffering from, that's a psych's job - but seeing as we are both restricted on what we can hear and say about the case, it might be worth pasting up. For a seemingly intelligent woman to put up with circa 10 years of this appalling abuse there must be something complex going on with JG. ( For me, it's better to see her as partly "mad" rather than just 100% "bad" /evil.)
Starting here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive_love
"Although not categorized specifically under any specific mental diagnosis by the DSM IV, some people argue that obsessive love is considered to be a mental illness similar to
attachment disorder, borderline personality disorder, and erotomania.... They may be entirely convinced that their feelings are love, and may reject the idea that their severe obsession is not love."
I looked at BPD -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
Naturally I don't know enough about her and BPD isn't a clear fit with the snippets we do know, but there is something self- harming about her attraction to him and her worst fear does seem to be abandonment. Equally though she may never have suffered from depression at all prior to meeting him but i still think he has triggered a weakness in her that was already there.....
The hypocrite clearly has a low opinion of her mental health, from what he writes in his foul texts, but he still exploits her vulnerability anyway.
Prosecution have themselves said this regard for him is not rational. JG does not seem to easily fit this BPD but there are shades of this, just based on what we have heard AND `there are a bewildering range of BPD sub types and overlaps. Some psychs believe lying is a feature of BPD and that BPD largely affects women. Naturally to have any of these disorders JG would have to have shown signs in adolescence which is something we cannot know about.
Bizarre but it says the United States House of Representatives declared the month of May as Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month!
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