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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster.  But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother.   He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings.  I think she was crazy for turning down his help.  She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.  [/quote]

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly. [/quote]

Why did she leave her abusive spouse and go to a person that hit her mom? Do you think sober people don’t hit people? Do you think Christians don’t abuse people?[/quote]

I kept waiting for that part of the show -- where her dad who seemed kind and stable started being abusive towards his second wife -- but it never happened.  The abuse happened in the past, when he was married to a woman with bipolar disorder, it seems?   And when he was drinking.  He seemed to have cleaned up his act and had a loving, stable home with a nice wife and two kids.

She was in a desperate situation and had a stable home available to her.  She should have stayed there until she got on her feet.  Her dad wasn't abusive towards his current wife, kids, or grandkids.  Under the circumstances it was the best option for her.[/quote]

Keep in mind she only figures out that he abused her mom during the time period of this show, plus her experience growing up had been that he was a no show. So on the one hand a sense of not feeling safe around him without necessarily consciousness of why, on the other a pattern that has been set for a long time. And doesn't he drink beer with Sean the night he brings over supper? And later rationalizes Sean's behavior to her? And thinks she has a responsibility to help Sean stay sober?

I actually like the fact that the series shows how people are not just Bad or Good.

Andie McDowell reminds me of the mom in The Glass Castle (I've read the book, didn't see the movie). At first she seemed like a caricature but as the season has gone on I don't think so.  [/quote]

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