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I don't condone what she did, but I understand

posted 12 years ago by CreoleSoul
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I had to watch this movie for a class on personality disorders.

I believe she had a very hard time accepting that her marriage was over and beingh "replaced" by a younger version of herself.

I think it was very egotistical of her husband to have an affair and leave her for his secretary, who was his mistress for a time.

Granted, I understand people fall out of love all the time, but she made sacrifices for their family so that they could have a better life once he finished school.

Does anyone surely expect someone to be okay with being replaced once the person they have supported, especially financially, hits the big time?

What a slap in the face! And then to marry the person with whom you were having an affair?

I don't condone what she did, but I understand.

[–] lilypad183 12 years ago

"Does anyone surely expect someone to be okay with being replaced once the person they have supported, especially financially, hits the big time?"

creole,
i understand it would be hard to be replaced by someone younger but i think she especially wanted the financial side of the marriage.

she had a degree in education, why didn't she use that to support herself and do better in life?

she chose to hate dan and linda over doing something with her life. she lived in intense anger and she's still living in anger. she let the anger and resentment kill dan and linda instead of moving on with her life.

she's a narcissist and had to have her own way and nothing else would do.

[–] blinkysmom 12 years ago

Well, no. Dan owed her. He wouldn't have been where he was at in life without her. Then when he finally decided to do the right thing and leave, he made Betty beg for every penny. It was wrong of him. He was a slimeball. No he didn't deserve to be murdered but Betty gave her life for her family and her kids. And then Dan decides he doesn't want to be with her; fine, but he owed her money and she was right to expect it. He was not a nice man at all. Read the "Twelfth of Never" by Bella Stumbo. Don't put too much stock in those made for tv movies for an insight into the real story. Betty snapped. True, murder is wrong and she's paying her dues, but read that book to get an accurate account of the true story instead of the view that glamorizes Dan and Linda. They were slimeballs to Betty ~ yes, both Dan AND Linda.

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[–] hodie 12 years ago

Blinkysmom has it exactly right.

I don't condone it but I certainly understand why she did it.

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[–] averagejoeman2013 11 years ago

"I don't condone what she did, but I understand."

Actually, when one indicates he/she "understands" why a person does a horrible act, it does lend a degree of condoning the action. You may not believe it, but there is something to be said for it. If there was no wavering in your belief it was wrong, THAT would be the guiding principle of your claim. Although it is a way to sort of play it both ways, there is no middle ground here. There should be equal condemning of the action regardless of circumstance. Any perceived anger or hmuliation are entirely irrelavent.

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[–] manram24 11 years ago

It's not that he left her for a younger woman, it's the taunting and fueling the fire afterwards that I do think Dan and Linda did which didn't help things.

Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours

[–] deem714 11 years ago

I totally agree...

I think the fact that the other secretary resigned because the Princess Di Gal was getting all this extra crap when she does nothing really to warrant it is a few points in Betty's box.

Sometime later on Betty goes through her resume of jobs she had so that Dan could persue his career first as a med student and then a law student. She stuck with him through thick and thin and basically supported him and their children while he "found" himself. As soon as he was good and rich, he decided to fvk around.

Whata tool. Dan and Princess Di both were!!

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[–] namaGemo 11 years ago

Is everyone here demented? Betty was a disgusting greedy piece of trash. She wasn't just a nasty whore to her husband, but everyone she came into contact with. No one deserved that sort of treatment. She was disrespectful, and maybe if she didn't bitch about things he did for her, they might have stayed together.

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[–] hodie 11 years ago

If anyone was a whore, it was Linda! She owed her career to sleeping with Dan! She was just a receptionist when he met her.
Betty's 'job' had been taking care of kids. The minute Dan started to make real money he started cheating on Betty.

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[–] larkpraise 10 years ago

Certainly I don't condone what Betty Broderick did. But in all fairness, I don't believe this tragedy would ever have happened if they hadn't let Satan take a hold of them and destroy them with the seven cardinal sins:

Anger.....Betty, Dan and Linda.

Lust....Betty for money, Dan for money and sex and Linda for money and sex. Dan had no business committing adultery and Linda, who knew he was a married man, had no business acting like a tart using her feminine wiles to help break up a marriage.

Greed....All of them.

Vanity....All Three

Pride....All Three

Gluttony.....Betty (after she started spiraling downward)

Sloth .... All three....Betty for refusing to move forward, Dan for being too lazy to devote time to his children and Linda for taking the easy way ingratiating herself into Dan's life and being a homewrecker.

All of these are supreme examples of what happens when God is not present in the family structure. Its built on sinking sand and the strong wind came and blew it away...destroying everyone in its path. So Sad.

And no, I don't think Betty should be given parole, because it is obvious she has not dealt with her anger and confronted her demons. I pray she finds the Lord before it is too late. Sad to say but I think it was too late for Dan and Linda.

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[–] madman58 10 years ago

my wife and i both read the book TWELFTH OF NEVER. if you like the movie,read the book and get ALL the information. its a great read about a mind blowing (no pun intended )situation. this family was biblical in its destruction.