Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These people are exhausting.
I have encountered other people like this, with enormously messy private lives due to their extreme narcissism and arrogance (which is what causes BS like this), but because they've been to therapy and are able to speak about their private drama with something resembling detachment or emotional maturity, they think everyone WANTS to hear about it. But at the end of the day, they are just people who couldn't stay faithful, or thought an open marriage could work when it didn't, or put their own needs before their kids, or whatever. Like they just messed up in one or more of the basic ways that people mess up all the time. Being able to talk about it in way that sounds intellectual or evolved doesn't really change that. Maybe it makes it easier for them to handle, if so, great. Discuss it with your therapist. But other people don't want to hear about your messed up private life. Maybe people are interested at first for salacious reasons, so they can gloat or gossip or whatever. But eventually... it's just sad. Go deal with it privately, you can stop involving the rest of the world in this depressing saga.
How is their life messy? Seems pretty private and straightforward to me. Other than that slap, everything else is just meh. I wouldn't consider their family messy.
They aren't private at all -- Jada has a whole show dedicated to discussing their family's issues. Jada had an affair with one of their son's friends, something they've both discussed publicly at length. Over the last decade, they've both chosen to say weird and sometimes inflammatory things about their marriage publicly, insinuating they are in an open relationships and then saying no, of course not, and then later saying yes they are. Jada did a public interview with Will's ex-wife on her show. They have spoken more publicly about the state of their marriage and their issues with fidelity and commitment than my DH and I have said to each other privately regarding our boring, healthy marriage. They are absolutely messy and high drama and not remotely private about it.
The slap was honestly just more added weirdness to an already complicated and overly-public situation. It's especially strange because they seem so eager to discuss their marriage publicly, but when they do, it's all this therapy speak that doesn't seem to mean anything and they just make things less clear all the time. Jada suddenly claiming they've been separated since 2016 is par for the course. I don't even understand what that means in this context because they seem to use terms like marriage, affair, open relationship, separated, partner, commitment very loosely and not according to commonly accepted meanings.