On 3/18/2021 at 7:47 AM, mythoughtis said:

these two were the most self absorbed white collar suburban parents of addicts  I’ve ever seen on here. Dawn is mentally ill and Chuck was lying just to lie

It's funny, as Chuck was talking I was thinking "yes, this guy very clearly is a CTO/CEO, he is quite skilled in telling the technical truth, and putting on a good show of it." And when someone tries to pin him down and call out his lies, he gets upset and says that being treated in such a "rough" manner "doesn't work for [him]," You don't say!

I think he enjoys playing the "stable, supportive" husband to the mentally ill, cruel wife. He thinks he looks better by comparison of NOT being borderline, and what an absolute saint he is for putting up with her craziness! He loves the drama and chaos, he loves that he can blame everything that's wrong in their family on the mom having so many issues, and he loves the control he's able to maintain by having a wife who, let's be honest, really can't work. She is completely dependent on him, and he absolutely gets off on it.

On 3/18/2021 at 6:30 AM, cynicat said:

The caged cockatiels struck me as a totally bizarre metaphor for the whole crazy family.  

The birds made me sad. My parents still have the cockatiel they got me in middle school, so it's about 28-years-old now. The poor birds in that house are constantly breathing so much garbage into their teeny little lungs. I wonder how many young birds they've had that have just died 'out of nowhere.'

On 3/25/2021 at 9:55 PM, Giant Misfit said:

I did laugh out loud at her trying to get Susan to wistfully remember all the good times they shared together doing drugs in bed.

That was incredible. As she was talking, I thought "she has rehearsed this, so she can show how perfect her family is, even when it's not perfect."

Her words were just total *facepalm* for me.

"Susie, I'm not glad we did drugs together. But I'm glad for the time we had together. I really am. That was precious."

Edited March 31, 2021 by dvr devotee
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