daisy.faithfull
RIP Joey, Summer, Gianni & Joey Jr.
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Sounds believable to me. Especially the part about *why* CA has stuck by GA.
I've wondered if the common thread when it comes to CA staying with GA, CA being in denial about her daughter's pregnancy, not protecting ICA if GA molested ICA, not wanting ICA to give her baby up etc. is that she believes that she must look like she has a good family even if that is so far from the truth.
I think I've seen in places that the Anthony's are "typical" italian american Catholic's... could that have fueled CA's refusal to deny the truth no matter what? Were abortion, divorce, child abuse something that just went against her core beliefs of herself, her family, her god? More than any other explanation I can understand that. It doesn't even begin to excuse her actions, but its something I can understand.
I do have a problem casting GA as the victim in all of this. It just doesn't make any sense that he would have felt so hopeless, so powerless that he could do nothing but stay in the relationship all this time, long before Caylee was even a glint in ICA's eye.
I am not at all saying that CA was the poor wife and mother struggling to keep her family together. CA is not the victim either. But it does make me uncomfortable to point the finger at CA and say that she is making GA and LA lie or that she is mostly to blame for her husband's and daughter's bad behavior.
Sometimes the simplest answer is closest to the truth, but I don't think that there is anything simple about the Anthony family, their web of twisted loyalties, and their behavior that truly does seem to defy explanation.
But when I take a step back it looks to me like even as the public's opinion of the Ant's was very low, GA's was better than CA's, and even as he possibly lied on the stand as CA did his popularity ratings were much better than CA's.
So when I wonder how GA has managed to pull that off, the simple answer that comes to mind is that he has been doing it for a very, very long time.
I feel beaten and hopeless. I have a lot of physical problems that decided to all act up now, of all times. I feel like I just got run over by a big truck.
I really am so grateful that everyone is here. I really, really want to thank every post I read, but it takes a bit more time and I want to read as much as I can.:beats: