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I don't blame his wife/partner for leaving him.

posted 7 years ago by TheFrinkahedron
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They had a five-year-old son. She was killing herself working double shifts, and he wouldn't even get a proper job. He said that he hadn't sold a scanner in "a long while". I would assume that meant months. So he hadn't brought in ANY income in months.

He was a smart, charismatic, friendly guy. I'm sure he could have found a simple job. He could have been a waiter. He could have been a cashier. He could have stacked shelves in a supermarket. He could have washed dishes. He could have been a janitor. And he could have continued to sell the scanners on the side (before/after work depending on his hours, and on the weekends). And if he really wanted to, he could have studied finance or whatever in the evenings after his son had gone to bed.

For someone as smart as he apparently was, he made some ridiculously stupid decisions.

[–] Ultrashiver 7 years ago

He was busting his butt, but I do agree. They were three months behind on rent and she was working doubles, probably to just put food on the table. He could've picked up a weekend job at K-Mart or bagging groceries.

[–] holly61 (901) 4 years ago

Chris was a ''dreamer''. Not all dreamers end up as lucky as Chris did in the end. I used to watch this film and thought of his wife as a bad mother and a quitter for leaving but now I understand where she was coming from. She was working hard to survive and her husband was about to lead their family to homelessness by quitting his job and taking an unpaid internship. She was within her good reason to leave him.

[–] lemonhead1 (410) 3 years ago

She was a horrible cunt!

[–] Heisenberg (6373) 2 years ago

Yes she was.
That does not make her one tiny bit less right for leaving him.