In regards to this possible suicide angle that reared it's ugly head yesterday after information about the self-inflicted cuts on the finger tips, I did some thinking about that after I logged off for a little while.
I want everyone who may read this to understand that what I'm about to type is theoretical , not factual, and it should be taken that way. I have no insider knowledge of any kind, and I don't know either Cheryl or her husband Mike.
I began by wondering about what kind of situation might arise that would actually propel Cheryl to take the drastic action of committing suicide. The Sunday before she vanished was Superbowl Sunday, which has nothing to do with anything except to refresh peoples memory about when she disappeared. Neither myself, nor anyone in this forum has any idea what that Sunday, or that entire weekend, was like inside her home. Cheryl and her husband apparently lived there as a couple, with their son living elsewhere on a fulltime basis. So what could have transpired that weekend that might have sent Cheryl into a forgetful, despondent, depressed and zombie like state by Monday morning ?
A) A huge, vicious argument
B) Proof of infidelity
C) A request for a divorce
D) A threat of divorce
F) knowledge of an incurable illness
G) Betrayal
H) Add your own idea here
Anyone who has ever had a gut splitting fight with a partner knows how quickly it can drain your entire being and send you into an almost catatonic state afterwards. Even though there may not be a conversation ongoing, your head still has all kinds of thoughts and ideas swirling around inside of it long after the arguing is over. Some people respond to these kinds of altercations by lashing out further, while some people respond by becoming withdrawn and internalizing things.
I can't sit here and say with any certainty that any of this happened. I also can't say with certainty that it didn't. Nobody in this forum was in their house during that weekend, so nobody can honestly say what may have happened. I guess the same would apply to the vast majority of their friends and family. Whether this information was shared with the authorities or not is unknown, but judging by some of their odd statements and revelations, it does sort of set the tone that they may know some things that happened here that none of the rest of us do.
With that being said, it is actually conceivable that if Cheryl was distraught about something that Monday morning, something big, then maybe the idea that she wanted to end it all is also conceivable. All you need is a bottle of pills, a bottle of booze, and an isolated place to lean back and give it time to kick in. Her state of mind that morning is really unknown for the most part, but numerous observers in here have commented about how unorganized and scattered she appeared to be, and how her daily routine appeared to be everything but routine that morning.
Unfortunately, if something like I described up there did happen, chance are good we will never know the details of what or when. The tidbit of information from the medical examiner yesterday in regards to the self inflicted cuts on her fingertips seems to indicate a precursor of things to come. I was one of the people that scoffed loudest at the very idea that this may have been a suicide when that report first surfaced. But after I've actually put some thought into it, and after observing the actions of her husband and what's been reported, I'm not so sure something didn't happen between them last weekend.
Something that may have been devastating to Cheryl.
