Serious question guys:
Which is worse? Incubus made that post up himself?
Or
Incubus’ “wife” really did post that?
Maybe I’m a spergy fool, but I think that really was Incubus’s wife. Why would Incubus, who has invested so much time and energy trying to convince us that he’s got it all figured out, post something as non-complimentary as that? Like you with the face said, it confirms almost everything we’ve predicted about him. Things that he has emphatically denied over and over again. So the post exposes him as a liar on top of everything else. Why would someone like Incubus, who cares so much about appearances, suddenly be so honest?
It also shows more insight than he’s ever demonstrated. He doesn’t talk about being upper-middle-class. Why? Because when he says he has gotten everything in his life through hard work, he wants us to believe him. He also doesn’t want anyone thinking his bus-driving job is not befitting of his social class. And it’s interesting that you with the face also got the mother-son dynamic correct. His wife is his mother figure. “I make all the decisions while he lives in a fantasy world on the computer” sounds like something an exhausted mother would say about her adolescent teenager. Not an equal partner who is all grown up and enlightened. (Even him running to tell his wife about this thread speaks to a certain immaturity.)
Thing is, I don’t know what to do with his information. I’m certainly not going to go easier on him now that his mommy-wife has apologized for him. But I do feel more sorry for the guy than I did before. I guess part of me wanted to believe that all that posturing was well-deserved. Turns out he’s got issues just like the rest of us.
The first, by far. If he made it up, he’s totally nuts/irredeemable troll.
If it’s the second, Incubus is probably crying right now, and won’t come back to the board for days.
Hell, if it’s the second, maybe Incubus will actually improve himself as a person.
Few douchebags are so far gone that they can’t un-douche themselves.
Considering how bad that post makes him look, I think it’s likely truly his wife.
So does this mean he was LYING HIS ASS OFF (LOL) when he said his wife was reading all the posts to his other thread with him, and they were laughing at our reactions? Because I’d seriously be taking my anger to a whole new level if I were her right now. Particularly with the comments about her niece (which I notice she also conveniently ignored).
“Yes or no, have you stopped being your wife?”
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Mr Anthony Perkins!!
See, this is why I don’t think it was for real. I can’t imagine many women alive who would jump to such a quasi defense of their husband without bringing that up in some way. And her ignoring it, just like he’s always done since it first happened, is literally straight out of his play book. Talk about not maturing, any way you look at it.
Why did he do it if it wasn’t completely complimentary? Well, he needed someone to come to his aid and no one else was going to do it. I’m sure he’s seen when spouses have stepped up vigorously for each other over the years, especially if the Pitted really deserved it. Those folks get run out on a rail and laughed at forever. So, he devised a plan to not look so obvious. Denigrate himself in a few areas, but still wind up saying nice enough things. Then polish off the whole farce by making her sound the exact opposite of himself. I mean, she’s that degreed and can’t spell some of the simplest words, use spell check (before her one and only post!) or proper sentence structure? Also, I found it telling that she chose to describe herself like he does, almost verbatim. It’s crazy.
However, the icing on the cake was the finale. Of course she’ll never be back to reply or comment further. Do you honestly think a “Latina” woman that “assertive” and “strong” would just let this slide with only one post? Or would he now be getting the heat somewhat off himself because we’re talking about her instead, maybe even giving him a teensy break due to what was said and now not expecting him to return because she’s reaming him out at home?
I think he did it because, despite all the trolling, he really does care what people here think of him. Eleven years is a long time to dedicate to one board to just let it totally get eclipsed by non-stop allegations of trolling. Plus, if he ever gets over his bitter period, he may just want to be known as a regular poster. So, there’s nothing in that exchange that says anything to me except that it was him pulling double duty.
And last analysis of the day… I’m still saying she left him and that’s what precipitated this change. I wonder if all that was in part him posting an ode to what he misses?
If we take that wifey post at first value, she says he’s lied about some things. She doesn’t elaborate on what those things are, but I’m guessing one of them is all the “my wife and I are laughing at you derps” type of posts.
I’m also guessing there was no happy three-mile run this weekend.
Incubus bragging about the clean house he keeps makes sense to me now. His wife makes all the decisions in the household, but at least he can point to the clean house as evidence he is pulling his weight. “I made up the bed this morning, and Mommy-Wife didn’t even have to remind me to do it. I AM A MAN!”
I buy it.
Honest to god, he’s a lucky man: he’s got a wife that understands him and loves him and expects him to be the best version of himself.
If that really is his wife, she is to be applauded for posting here after reading what he has said and all the snark he’s earned. She seems to already know he has problem with telling the truth, but it’s gotta be horrifying to realize just how ugly and delusional he is. Well, at least she can see that he thinks the world of her…I guess there’s that.
It does sound like she has her head screwed on straight and isn’t his ally when it comes to looking down at other people, so their relationship is rather intriguing. They say opposites attract but when it comes values and life priorities, those really do need to be in sync. If Incubus’s wife is the hardworking, overachieving, never-settle-for-less, task master type and Incubus is the type who is spends an inordinate amount of energy convincing himself and others that he’s Living the Dream despite being unfulfilled, discontent, and unchanging, well it’s not going to take long for his wife to get sick of him. I know, because I’m wired much the same way.
For all his bragging about his clean home, it sounds like his wife is taking care of that. She probably has to nag him just to pick up a dust pan and empty the trash. But he pats himself on the back for taking control of his life. As Papa Smurf used to say, amazing, simply amazing.
faithfool, it seems to me that if Incubus wanted to save face,the most logical thing would be for him to own up to trolling and promise to do better. He could even say something like, “I’ve decided to follow my own advice and listen to everyone’s feedback.”
He wouldn’t have even had to apologize.
Also, I don’t know why my last post had Monstera’s post in it. Damn multiquote button!
I just knew that was coming. 
OMG, this is getting good. If that was his wife, she actually sounds very cool and self aware.
I am not qualified to say whether that post was a second personality emerging or a second person writing on his account.
I hate myself for it, but I can’t help reading it without hearing it spoken in Salma Hayek’s voice. (Somewhere out there, I offer my deepest apologies to Salma Hayek, whom I am forever grateful will never ever read this thread)
The post was civil to us, but sounded like it was written by someone holding a lot of anger back. If that really was his wife, right about now I think she’s beating the ever-loving-shit out of him.
(…and I approve of that beating! When you’re done, three more punches, please. In the arm, in the exact same spot, As Hard As You Can.)
And when people tell you that you’re too good for him, They’re Right!
Of course, that post could just be another personality emerging, which someone much more qualified than me might call a mental illness event. If that is the case we, as a community, have an obligation to provide a PSA:
Posters from San Francisco!
We, at the SDMB urge you, until this crisis passes… and for your own safety… Please…
Do Not Ride The Bus…!
Thank you…
But see, I don’t think these things are logical. My evidence for that is trolls like Umkay. I mean, why would he ever have to admit to anything? He’s never wrong. 
And another data point that I believe plays into why he would try this? It would “prove” his wife hadn’t left him. No one talks like that without it being an act. No one would ignore allegations of child abuse made against a family member that’s just been completely ignored. No one parrots back, as a description of themselves, exactly the same thing as what their spouse says about them. No one that educated would write / speak like that unless it was an intentional caricature. No one pissed enough for such a lengthy diatribe walks away after just one post. No one calls their spouse out over such things that dovetail what’s been said, follows up with praise, all the while side-stepping most of the really important issues addressed.
So, yeah. I still, in no way, believe that was her. But I gotta give it to Incubus, it’s taken a lot of heat off of himself. Brilliant ploy if you can get away with it.
Like Manda Jo said, if that is truly his wife, he is lucky. And like others have said, maybe this will improve him, in the long run?
Nothing about the uncle child molestor was mentioned because, like the post mentioned, that was likely made up (at least, I’ll believe that part). Perhaps she didn’t specify because she didn’t care to go through all the threads and see everything and figure all his lies.
I did wonder that, if he kept ignoring that part because he made that part up, and addressing it would mean owning up that it was a lie. Although it would be better to admit you lie than to admit you let a pedophile off the hook.
And I guess that is why he never mentioned Jenni when I linked to her. Because if his wife does look (or dress) like her, she truly is hot, and does not deserve to be demeaned like he was doing in other threads.
I think this is one psychoanalysis that is incorrect. I don’t believe his wife has left him because if that was the case, it would be unlikely he’d bring her up so much. That would be a source of shame so painful his ego wouldn’t allow him to talk about her.
He clings to her because, as monstro surmised in the other thread, she is his most important accomplishment. Without her, he’d just be a lonely bus driver who fell into his occupation because he didn’t know what else to do with his life.
I believe that the post is real because it makes him look too bad, and Incubus doesn’t have it in him to admit his flaws. When he trolls, he does so by pouring on the obnoxiousness, and that quality was noticeably absent in that post.
It hasn’t taken the heat off him, though. That post was like dumping gasoline on a fire that was about to die.
For whatever it’s worth, I read a lot of stuff written by intelligent, educated ESL writers, and that’s about par for someone whose strength is not languages.
Umkay was an unknown quality. Incubus is not. I mean, I’ve read a couple novels worth of his posts over a decade. . .I don’t think he could fake that.
I picked a hell of a day to stop sniffing glue.
I agree. I really think that’s HMW™ too. How does Incubus come back from this? She basically confirmed everything we’ve been saying about him.