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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah I know.  I've read plenty and recently listened to a podcast.  I just know that at the end of it, she committed murder.  I don't think anyone deserves to be murdered. [/quote]

I don't think anyone deserves to be murdered, but I think you can also bring bad karma on yourself by being a terrible person. And Dan was.[/quote]

Yes, the gaslighting and cruelty was horrible. My young teen son watched a little of it and concluded that he drove her insane. I had to explain to him that psychological cruelty doesn't justify murder, morally or legally. But he was very sympathetic to her.[/quote]

Finally, more and more, a light is being shone on this kind of post-separation abuse/coercive control, as well as the effect of emotional and psychological abuse in a marriage. Murder and violence is NOT the answer, but Dan was a calculating malignant narcissist and his goal was absolutely to destroy Betty. Which he did. 
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+1. He was absolutely cruel. [/quote]

+2  At least if this happened today, there would have been a forensic accounting and she would have gotten half. Far more than she was awarded thanks to the machinations of her ex. Also more likely to have had court-ordered therapy and then a more successful custody resolution. All would have helped her preserve her dignity while adjusting to the major adjustment in identity and lifestyle.[/quote]
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That A&E link is nuts. He managed to get everything and she had basically no power. He got her committed at one point![/quote]

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