MomofBoys
Future Bucs QB
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I know I'm late, but due to a new baby I haven't been able to get on here much. I was just made aware of this case today.
Maybe it's because I'm a mom to a little boy close to Ethan's age, but man. I've cried more over this case than any case I've ever followed. Real, hard tears.
What was SS' state of mind during the week she was "documenting"? Someone referenced her FB postings. I know we can't post them verbatim, but can I have a general account?
I know the concept of folie a deux. I immediately wondered if perhaps this case was a case of that, but I honestly don't think (not that I'm inferring others did) that it's a mitigating mental phenomenon. I think actual cases of folie a deux are very rare--I think that in cases like this, the "love" mom feels for the SO/Fiance/Husband overrides the maternal instinct to protect. All of a sudden, she gets that rush of lust/love/infatuation and in those moments/hours/weeks/months she is so enamored with the man that she's almost turned on by what I believe is some men's biological instinct to kill the young of another.
We see it so often. The child playing second fiddle to the new boyfriend. Mom holding resentment about the breakup/divorce and taking it out on the "product" of that 50/50 union. That's all been said over and over, but in this case she hasn't come crashing back to reality yet. Or maybe that started today. A few weeks of demeaning treatment while separated from Mr. Wonderful will get that going.
Sick, sick, sick. I thought after Caylee and Sandra that I felt the pinnacle of pain over these cases, but I guess that's over.
Maybe it's because I'm a mom to a little boy close to Ethan's age, but man. I've cried more over this case than any case I've ever followed. Real, hard tears.
What was SS' state of mind during the week she was "documenting"? Someone referenced her FB postings. I know we can't post them verbatim, but can I have a general account?
I know the concept of folie a deux. I immediately wondered if perhaps this case was a case of that, but I honestly don't think (not that I'm inferring others did) that it's a mitigating mental phenomenon. I think actual cases of folie a deux are very rare--I think that in cases like this, the "love" mom feels for the SO/Fiance/Husband overrides the maternal instinct to protect. All of a sudden, she gets that rush of lust/love/infatuation and in those moments/hours/weeks/months she is so enamored with the man that she's almost turned on by what I believe is some men's biological instinct to kill the young of another.
We see it so often. The child playing second fiddle to the new boyfriend. Mom holding resentment about the breakup/divorce and taking it out on the "product" of that 50/50 union. That's all been said over and over, but in this case she hasn't come crashing back to reality yet. Or maybe that started today. A few weeks of demeaning treatment while separated from Mr. Wonderful will get that going.
Sick, sick, sick. I thought after Caylee and Sandra that I felt the pinnacle of pain over these cases, but I guess that's over.