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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just finished the book. Belle was objective, describing how the ExH maintained the yard every year and how he recorded the kids' lives, EVERY year, on a DVD for 16 years. He didn’t come across as an absent father. He was warm and even-tempered. Further, did anyone else pick up the same things? He seems to be a fun person who speaks Greek, since he goes to Greece each summer to do research with his stepfather, the professor, and he knows Asia very well. She seems a really plain Jane and a potentially boring person. What he did was absolutely jerkish, but I wonder if this marriage was a mismatch from the start. [/quote]

I read the book through twice because I was surprised by interpretations like yours and wanted to make sure I didn’t miss something. Your read suggests you read 3 random pages.

She didn’t sound boring at all, but the description of the things he did to me came across as the kind of stuff a narcissist does once in a while just to get attention. Yardwork, a dvd? That’s stuff that’s tangible and that gets you praise. And allows you to write the story of your life and relationship every year, conveniently.

I’d buy your take more easily if you’d said he did all the quiet stuff in the background. But he didn’t. [/quote]

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