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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually really liked the fight scene. I don’t know that a couple at that stage would have that level of insight into their issues but I liked it anyway. Having been married for a long time I just feel like it would take people years to unpack some of what they were unpacking, but I found it pretty compelling.

I also thought it was super sad that even though they were in a horrible fight, all she wanted him to do is stay and he couldn’t even do that.

He just never developed beyond that little boy. [/quote]

Selfish and immature…and not that bright.

These two people really weren’t the characters portrayed in the series. They were essentially privileged and self-centered…and really immature.

But this is tv. It’s not real. And every fight and conversation is just a story. It’s not a documentary.

My two cents: he pursued her because she made him chase her. That was a novelty. But eventually he was hoping she would fall in line and act like his sister and Kennedy relatives: do something noble (as a job or volunteer) and pop out a few babies. His image mattered to him and he wanted the security of family (which he obviously valued). They were a mismatch from the start—a passionate fling that burned brighter and longer than the universe expected. [/quote]

It may be your two cents, but that is exactly what Carolyn pointed out in her fight with him.

I feel like everyone commenting understands it is not a documentary, but clearly there are some real elements. We don’t know what they fought about or what it looked like, but we do know that they fought, and clearly she felt like he had lost interest in her once he “got” her and clearly he was not prepared to compromise or give much to make things work.

What I liked about that scene was I feel like that could describe a lot of marriages not just JFK Jr. Nothing really prepares us for marriage, and we just have to go through the struggles of realizing we married one version of a person, but to build a life with them and succeed, we have to accept the whole package and it works best if both people are willing to work out their crap and grow up.

They died young so we won’t ever know but it does seem likely they were going to split. [/quote]

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