I am both disappointed in him and I feel sorry for him and his wife.
CR is a fairly young man and he and his wife have been dealing with the intense emotional trauma of the past 2-3 years - including the turmoil when LVD decided to leave CV, the violent loss of CV (which must have looked suspicious to CR), the disappearance and eventually discovered loss of TR and JJ, the revelations about his own childhood and his relationship with his mother and her claims that Joe Ryan abused CR, and the estrangement from his mother who fully invested herself in a life without him and who was responsible for the loss of so many others to him.
Colby and his wife had a very young child of their own, which is plenty of work and change for most couples, all by itself. I can't imagine how much more difficult it must be to try to take care of one's family without all the rest heaped upon it.
I wish CR had found a trusted mentor/counselor (or several), both for himself and for his marriage and family given the enormous strains they were under. And I wish he'd have gained and maintained an awareness that he had to be careful to avoid making stupid mistakes that would injure others. He might have been capable of physical separation from his mother, but extricating her impact upon him is a job that will take years of hard work that begins with the recognition that (1) walking away from LVD is only the first of a great many steps on the road to recovery, and (2) it is a huge burden to be carried by a young wife with a baby, even if it is not your fault and you are both victims of your abuser.
My hope is that through these charges, he will somehow be directed toward that help and will stick with it all the way through to recovery so he can serve as a good father to his child, whether he remains husband to his wife or not.
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