I am disturbed a bit by the fingers all being pointed at Anna. She is cringy, needy, tone deaf (psychologically and socially). However, she didn’t force Mark to abandon his kids. He made that choice. What do we all think about men who cheat, stop parenting in any meaningful way, then marry a younger version of the original spouse? Mark bears so much responsibility here. He is appearing in her video (although he looks like he hates it!) and left his 4 kids. Yuck.
I completely agree with this and I think some of the focus on Anna is just because she posts daily and it's so cringey. But having known Tim when they were married I also want to say that she is very manipulative in relationships, and she gets her way come hell or high water. Her ex was a massive people pleaser and she threw fits if she didn't get her way. She broke him down by subtle insults and constantly belitting him and also making him feel like he never did anything even though he was actually a very involved dad. You can see how she still does this online to him even though they are divorced. I don't have any defense for Mark moving away from his kids but knowing how she operates I would guess he's an insecure guy who she has broken down and orders around like she did with Tim. I am not surprised she got him to uproot his life while she is comfortable living in the same house in the same town going to the same country club on Tim's membership and Mark is serving her coffee every mornig and driving her kids to school.
Anna is also one of those people who will just keep saying the same thing over and over until the people around her have to agree with her and I would bet she's convinvced Mark that it isn't a big deal he left his kids. Her post a couple weeks ago about how she went to boarding school and refuses to let her kids be her whole world and won't miss them when they go to college is classic Anna. She creates theories that justify being selfish and she harps so much on the same thing that the people around her give in. Until they finally get woken up by something. In her marriage, it was the cheating.