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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this story happens a lot. Rich woman with family connections marries a man who is in it for the money and connections. He uses her to rise to the top then takes off. He was probably planning to wait until the kids were in college but the covid lockdown sped things up. The fact that the in-laws wouldn’t talk to her at all tells me that she was probably insufferable.

Maybe the in laws just didn't want to get involved. They'd gotten what they needed from her.

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Anonymous wrote:I am so curious about the author’s motivation for publishing this. She is so connected that I would have thought she would rather keep things private.

Way too googleable. Hard to believe there’s no revenge motive, since she portrays herself as pure as the driven snow. (And she lost 20 pounds of excess mom weight — yippie). Perhaps she thinks she is innocent of vengefulness because she goes easy on him. But really his reputation has been sullied. Which I am sure she is more than fine with.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this story happens a lot. Rich woman with family connections marries a man who is in it for the money and connections. He uses her to rise to the top then takes off. He was probably planning to wait until the kids were in college but the covid lockdown sped things up. The fact that the in-laws wouldn’t talk to her at all tells me that she was probably insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:Is he from the same elite background?

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:His dad was a blue blood too. You can google his obit. Rodman Townsend Davis. House in Vineyard, etc.

Interesting that they request donations to the Carter Burden (Belle’s father) center for aging. I guess in 2016 Henry was still all in.

Anonymous wrote:His dad was a blue blood too. You can google his obit. Rodman Townsend Davis. House in Vineyard, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:This article had everything. Vineyard house. Weight loss. Blueberry bushes. Revenge, served cold in the New York Times. I f$&ing loved it.

Haha me too-could eat this up with a knife and fork!

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Anonymous wrote:I am so curious about the author’s motivation for publishing this. She is so connected that I would have thought she would rather keep things private.

She is probably terrible which is why he cheated and left.

Cheating and leaving your spouse is terrible. But so is writing into the NYT about it.

My DH is horrible to me and emotionally abusive. He threatens me with the kids and financially. People would be shocked because he comes across as cool and collected. He is a complete ass and I’m only still here because of the kids.

If I managed to find a hot BF whom I enjoyed spending time with him and had the money to fight him in a divorce, I too would be on that first ferry back. I’m sure my DH would tell everyone how awful I am.

My own experience makes me question that they had this picture perfect marriage and he’s an evil cheater who suddenly up and left her.

I mean… fair, but that’s not a reason to decline any custody of his own kids. That’s so damaging and presumably they did nothing wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Alright I went a little deep on the Davis family. Found the brother's? wedding announcement in the NYT (2002). And I think these white people jumped a broom at their wedding and said it was 100 year old tradition??? The pics are hard to make out, but I think they are all white. What the what??

Please link it!

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/style/weddings-celebrations-vows-bridget-elias-and-townsend-davis.html

The white people jumping the broom and the thirsty ancestor name dropping in the wedding announcement is so terrible.

But this is sad, seems like Bridget has alzheimers. https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/calendar/event/20230520/46830955-6dfb-4705-b914-cbbf9cd27226/drawn-from-memory-the-cartoons-and-drawings-of-bridget-elias
And her kids are only 20 and 18. So I'm sure Belle Burden might be more understanding that her BIL is distracted and wants to circle the wagons around his family

Clearly the same lady... They mention the husband too.

Not the same lady. Just the same name.

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Anonymous wrote:Alright I went a little deep on the Davis family. Found the brother's? wedding announcement in the NYT (2002). And I think these white people jumped a broom at their wedding and said it was 100 year old tradition??? The pics are hard to make out, but I think they are all white. What the what??

Please link it!

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/style/weddings-celebrations-vows-bridget-elias-and-townsend-davis.html

The white people jumping the broom and the thirsty ancestor name dropping in the wedding announcement is so terrible.

But this is sad, seems like Bridget has alzheimers. https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/calendar/event/20230520/46830955-6dfb-4705-b914-cbbf9cd27226/drawn-from-memory-the-cartoons-and-drawings-of-bridget-elias
And her kids are only 20 and 18. So I'm sure Belle Burden might be more understanding that her BIL is distracted and wants to circle the wagons around his family

Not the same lady. Just the same name.