How does a seemingly intelligent woman like Tina fall in love with a control freak A Hole like Gabe? He gave her many clues to his character flaws long before he murdered her. I say murder becaues he did purposely allow her to drown in the waters off Australia.
He only married her after she started to see someone new, a nice guy that she rejected. She would still be alive had she stayed with him instead of believing Gabe's BS...
I was thinking exactly the same thing! She should have run 100 miles in the opposite direction from him!
shareMy take was that she had an image of what she wanted, possibly a sense of entitlement, plus she might have feared ridicule had she dropped him or felt she would have failed. Yeah, I felt she should have dropped him the moment she made the key mistake of calling him to begin with; he probably knew he had her then. Had her father had real money, the death probably would have gone down, no pun intended, at a different time ... either sooner, or after she had inherited something.
I'm not sure I blame her for dropping the nice guy because apparently fireworks hadn't happened and she thought she had time to look, plus she was probably in teh rebound stage. Perhaps she would have learned to go for the nice guy. But Gabe's then proposing might have made her think she had arrived. She just wasn't listening to herself.
I had a controlling, verbally abusive boyfriend. It lasted two days shy of two months before I dumped him.
I'm married now and he's engaged with a newborn.
I'll never understand the 'draw' of abusive men.
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How does a seemingly intelligent woman like Tina fall in love with a control freak A Hole like Gabe?Thought the same thing myself. It's one question the movie doesn't really seriously try to answer, though it strongly suggests the father had serious doubts about his daughter's choice of husband,🐭 share