She uses this tactic because it works for her. Man will start to resent her for it, and the relationship will be over. Another Lawyer gets paid.
You’re not married are you?
EVERYTHING is the man’s fault.
She’s drunk, and he’s a jerk for winding her up while secretly recording it.
Although I think the guy is the worse jerk in this particular video, I do sympathize with him in a way. When we were together, my ex enjoyed a reputation as a sweet little angel, and nobody understood why we didn’t get along. However, I didn’t solve that problem by secretly recording video while I wound her up… I solved it by simply letting her have that 5th glass of wine in social company rather than discreetly tucking her into the car before she turned into Ms. Hyde.
Drunks, jeesh. They are the absolute worst. But turning them into viral videos is probably the jerkiest and least productive way to address the problem.
I call bullshit. Pure set-up. Couple uploads staged outrageous video, maybe hopes to go viral and land a reality show contract of some sort.
Right, he should bend to the will of this idiot because she’s gonna act like a child if she doesn’t get her way.
That couldn’t possibly backfire and teach her how to get whatever she wants no matter how selfish.
I love it. That woman deserves to be mocked. He handled it, probably after the 1000th time he had to deal with it, is a calm and rational way. That’s how I would have handled it if it had been a little kid. Why is he required to be caring and wonderful to such a stupid bitchy woman? Because he has a penis and she has a vagina?
I love this whole thing. I’m glad she’s being mocked publicly. I know I shouldn’t feel that way, but I do. I know too many women who hen peck and bitch and just treat nice guys horribly. It’s nice to see one get it back, threefold.
She seems pretty drunk, to me.
I agree the tantrum was ridiculous, but I wondered if this trip to the lake had been planned for a while and she had already declined other things, and then he decided quite suddenly to get the tires rotated, or if he has a habit of canceling things at the last minute, or something like that.
She acted like a jerk with her tantrum, but he was far jerkier in recording it. In a marriage you expect some semblance of privacy.
Hope they don’t have any kids watching all this.
I know lol. I came in to see how long it took for the woman to become a victim and the man to be the abuser. First response!
Maybe not yet but I see a massive grudgefuck coming.
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For one, we don’t know what happened before he started recording; she may have tried to articulate it for like 20 minutes and finally blew up out of frustration. And if you’re saying that people should never blow up at their spouses out of frustration, I’d say sure, but have you met people?
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I get that partners can become aggravated with one another, but that was a whole 'nother level of dysfunctional, IMO.
This is not the first time she’s had a tantrum. Hubby called it when he noted that (not a direct quote but a paraphase) “now you’re going to text all your friends and post on facebook how mean I am to you.” And I guess hubby was being mean by not caving in to her.
I read this on Gawker, where it was linked from Reddit (IIRC). He said that no, there had been no plans to go to the lake at all, he had been planning to get car maintenance and stuff done, and this was the last nail in the coffin of the relationship; he was filing for divorce.
Would “semblance of privacy” include texting one side of your story to all your friends and posting a slanted story on facebook? If she can do that, I think it’s fair for him to record the incident.
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Linkie. He also claims:
- to have tried couples counseling, unsuccessfully
- that she posts on Facebook about how he’s always yelling and cursing at her
- that she’s broken doors and other things around their house
No, that just means he’s doing an assholish thing in retaliation for her assholish thing. Just because the other person did it first doesn’t make it okay.
Of course, now that he’s filing for divorce I find it less concerning. It’s still kinda slimy though. I wonder if she will try to use it against him in court. This will probably result in a lot of unnecessary escalation of an already pretty shitty sitaution.
Well, if you are not DRUNK, you can drive a vehicle with an interlock.:dubious::rolleyes:
Maybe she needs to get booted out on her ass, hit bottom and realize she needs to dry out and get mental help. If Mommy and Daddy let her tantrum her way into everything, and never broke her of that charming little habit, and the previous men in her life let her continue getting away with it, I think it is high time someone called her on her bullshit.
I couldn’t watch the whole thing. She was being a brat. It looks like she was also having a nicotine fit.
He knew damn well that he was winding her up, though, and releasing the video to the world was an asshole move. Showing the video in divorce court is one thing, but showing it worldwide is another.
No, it just makes them both childish assbaskets who deserve each other.
Pfft, like I give a shit obviously (and yet I still post!) but for me…she switches that tantrum on and off like a tap.
I call repeat episodes of childish manipulative behaviour on her part and him being fed up to the back teeth and deciding to record it so he can say…“ha, see? this is what this nightmare psycho bitch is like”