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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think anyone is saying Garrisons death was his fault. What is his fault is cutting him and many other children off and refusing to bury the hatchet over perceived slights Cody felt they did. He’s the adult and the parent and should be making all the effort to negotiate a better relationship with his children. He’s been especially cold towards Savannah and Ysabel for no reason. [/quote]

Yes I don't think Garrison's death is his fault. What I do think is that if my child died in that way I would be consumed with wondering what I could have done differently. I don't know how a parent could avoid looking back and wondering if there are things that they could have done differently. I think that would be especially true in a situation where I was estranged from my kids.

I also think that an event like that would cause me to try to rebuild things with the other kids I had drifted away from. A reminder that time is finite and to not let these grudges impact them.

I also think we have unique insight into what caused the fracture with his children due to their public lives and for all the spinning Kody likes to do, what is clear is that he doesn't feel like it is on him to make the effort. I believe he feels like he has always been torn in too many directions and he feels like he has just spent his entire life making an effort. But of course, spread so thin, each individual kid always felt like they were getting scraps. Now he is like, well why aren't they making the effort, because his entire life he had these young kids just sitting around waiting for their turn to have his light shine on them. Now they are adults and seeing how unfair this lifestyle was to their mothers and to themselves and deciding that they have no interest in sitting around waiting for him to pay attention to them, they are building their own lives and he's losing his connection to almost all of them. And you see Kody on screen basically saying 'well if they aren't making an effort I'm not going to make an effort'. And as parents you see that and many of us are shocked because we can't imagine feeling so cavalier about losing communications with our own kid. Especially in light of their really painful on camera confessionals, Gabe and Garrison in PARTICULAR over the last few years, clearly kind of crying out for help and reconnection.

So its like, compounded when you see this tragedy, see that he was outcrying, see that Kody was being recalcitrant, and seeing that in the aftermath he has not changed his ways. I don't think that it was Kody's fault, but I think his reaction both to his sons and to the tragedy shows a self absorbed narcissist who has contributed to his children's pain and who doesn't care about it. [/quote]

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