Wow that is a sad, unbelivable story. I saw this movie when it first came out in the movie theater. I could not believe that a parent could behave like this ! A thought this was just supposed to be an extreem fictous case for the sake of a movie plot. Then I got older and saw the real world. I can not believe how little regard some men have for there children and responsiabilities in life. It's just sick ! How do these guys sleep at night ! It makes no sense. I know a guy who was my childhood friend. He grew up to become a selfish fat alcoholic. One of the coldest people I ever meet. This guy was acidentally got a young girl pregnant durring a drunken threesome. So they shacked up together while she was going through the pregnancy. In essence he lived with her while she worked and payed the bills. He constantly hit the bar and cheated on her with everything that moved (Boasted that he does not like to wear comdoms because they are uncomfortable). Eventually he moved out about the time his son was born (because he did not want to have to take care of him, diapers,etc). And completely ignored the child. He told people " I will go see the baby later, when he is older and can talk". Then guy was completely out raged when the womens family hired an attorney so she could get full custody. And axe him out of the picture. He was especially angry because of the child support she was after. The weirdest part of all this was that he thought he was doing nothing wrong ! What is with these guys ? The just don't get how cold and selfish they truely are ? What is your take on this ?
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robotrix
15 years ago
I don't know.
When I was a kid there was zero help from the law if the father moved out of state.
That's changing now but now you've got these guys who will even give up successful businesses and work "off the books" so that they don't have to give "that bitch" a thing. Seems the "logic" is that any money he can keep from giving her - even if it's meant for the kids - is a way to get back at the ex-wife (even if all she did was stop putting up with his cheating or whatever he was doing wrong).
What always got me was - in not only these kinds of cases but in cases of guys who beat their wives or stalk ex-wives or girlfriends and end up killing them - where are the friends and/or male relatives of these guys? Why don't they know their friends are so unbalanced? If they do, why don't they ever alert the authorities? Maybe they should try to talk some sense into them? I don't want to think that all men think the same way about women.
Then again, I've got a friend who I thought I knew better who has just started up an affair with a married woman even though he's known her and the husband for more than seven years... This couple is part of a group of friends that he inherited after his divorce and I guess he can still go to the get togethers and look this guy in the face. And besides the old saying "If they'll cheat on them, they'll cheat on you" he doesn't think when this all comes to light - good or bad - that the other husbands in the group aren't going trust him around their wives anymore...and he'll end up losing all his friends? Or maybe he just doesn't care?
I've stopped trying to understand.
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
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steveicm
15 years ago
Yes I am amazed buy these guys. It seems that there are people from all walks of life. Even quote higher circles doing this affair stuff. But even worse they are having children in the process. I also agree with about these guys who get in relationships with who are cheating on there husbands. One guy I know named Donnie hooled up with this women named wendy. Wendy left her husband for him. Then later Donnie was amazed when she cheated on him. Plus on another note. This was quite awhile ago. But there was a cop (here in Portland) who blew his x-wife away. In front of there fourteen month old baby. He was a motorcycle cop in uniforum and everything. When he murderd her. It came out later that this officer had been stalking and herassing his wife for a very long time. She had made repeted reports to the police asking for he'll. However because he was a cop. The police did nothing. I always wonderd why his cop buddies did not try to talk some since into the guy. If the law had intervened she would be alive today.
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