I need to try to understand this. So, for all the mothers out there, would you do whatever you had to do to protect your child. I'm just wondering if Cindy has figured that Caylee is dead and now she cannot lose her baby (Casey). I am not a mother, so I don't know what that bond is like. So please think long and hard and then give me your insight.
I have a daughter who is a carbon copy of Casey Anthony. She has children and she is a great mother. However, she lies pathologically, can't hold a job, gets in "financial" situations and expects to be bailed out by the family all the time. She doesn't have a "nanny" however, she's moved up to the au pair category. I'm surprised Casey is sooo yesterday.
If one of my grandchildren went missing in a similar manner to Caylee, I would have to PRETEND to believe her. I wouldn't necessarily believe her, but you cannot call these people out or they will clam up. You have to understand their way of thinking, it's "magical" thinking. They can tell you a gigantic lie and you HAVE to believe them because you have no EVIDENCE to the contrary. If you don't believe them and express that, you are a traitor in their eyes since you have no EVIDENCE to the contrary. Now, if you should have a bit of evidence, such as decomp in the trunk, or whatever, they will look at you like a hurt child and deny they have any idea how such a thing could have gotten there. Then they would probe you to see if you believed them or not. If you did not believe, they would cut you off because you couldn't PROVE they had anything to do with the decomp, and they would stick to that story forever. Meanwhile, they would no longer have anything to do with you because you dared to doubt them. These people truly believe they are smarter than the rest of us and that they are above the law which is stupid.
To get to the meat of the question, no, I would NOT cover for my daughter the way Cindy is - unless "I" had something to hide. No relationship with a child that has proven time and again they cannot be trusted would motivate me to run around muddying the waters for them. I would have to tell my child I loved her, which I do God help me, but I would have to let the law take its course. By then, she would not be speaking to me, accepting visits, or phone calls. She would punish me because I didn't believe her.
When you have a child like this, there comes a point when you have to protect yourself and I reached that point with my daughter. She lied, and lied, and lied, and I called her bluff and forced her to do something she didn't want to do. She damned me to hell, etc., and we didn't speak for over a year. Believe me, Casey won't tell the truth unless she can come out of this smelling like a rose, exonerated, and "appearing" to be mother of the year, at least. In my opinion, Cindy is going to the lengths she goes to because of guilt in one form or another. Maybe the difference is my conscience is clear, but, make no mistake, these people will twist and turn things so much that you will end up feeling you are the one to blame.:bang:
Just my humble opinion.
