So, I have been binge-watching this show and I must say...

I agree 100%. There are only a small handful of people who I feel real sympathy for. Most of them are so unbelievably stupid that I wonder if some of what they're saying is even true.

The story about the oldest son who commits many acts of arson is one. He tried MULTIPLE times as a child to hurt or kill his younger brother and sister, yet his parents kept him at home! Sure they took him to "counselors" but when that didn't work, he should have been sent away to be evaluated, etc. What parents in their right minds are going to permit their small children to be so abused repeatedly, for years, by an older sibling?? And one where the daughter calls her mother for help saying that her father didn't allow her to go to school and he's wearing a mask. Instead of rushing home from work - and maybe calling the police - she tells her daughter to "stay in her room" where she stayed ALL DAY until her mother FINALLY comes home! And she accepted his ridiculous excuses about the mask!! And this is after YEARS of not trusting him!

And yes, most of the women I find borderline impaired! No way would I permit myself or my child to be brutalized over and over, year after year after year, like some of these women do. It's actually quite unrealistic IMO. And they don't TALK to the abuser half the time, they ignore, they let things go, over and over. And I've wondered so many times about where their family members are and why aren't they intervening? The show doesn't go into anyone's families.

There were a few episodes that were heart wrenching, i.e. the one about the Sexton family. They were children who were under the complete control of their father. There is no way a child can be held responsible for anything a parent does.

I'm still watching but I'm skipping over many episodes or watching parts and not until the end because I can't take the stupidity.

Edited: I'm watching one now that's a perfect example: The baby killer whose live in boyfriend didn't see that she was pregnant - TWICE! WTF???

Preach buddy. Preach

I’m female, but I swear to God, this shows episodes that cover the ex-girlfriend or ex-wife‘s perspective; the victim perspective on a relationship they had with a fucked up man who murdered or raped or did whatever the case was are driving me crazy. I just find them soooo pathetic. They just all do the same tell-tale lame behaviours that are basically taught as general knowledge for what to look out for and avoid these days. They CHOOSE to stay with a person that beats them, they CHOOSE to stay with a person that separates them from their family and friends, they CHOOSE to stay with a person who has becoming increasingly controlling and begun threatening to kill them. Then they have kids with them, and that just adds a further selfdeluded reason to stay. and only after YEARS do they finally decide to leave them, but by then his sense of spite and homicidal vengeance is so much greater and so much more potent, than had they left him earlier in the relationship. I just really find them annoying for being stupid and for basically leading themselves into this situation.

I was thinking the other day that I should be somewhat grateful to my upbringing of kind of mixed good and bad, but plenty of shit experiences. Like I’ve never had a great relationship, Ive just kind of had average or real sucky ones. And so I’m naturally suspicious of any person who is trying to go above and beyond to impress me. Plus I grew up with 6 brothers who mistreated me, so I’m actually naturally suspicious of any person that even offers to do me a favour. I just find it odd.
But yet these women get taken in by these guys who are in the beginning such saints to them. How they make them feel beautiful, make them feel like they have worth.. lavishing them with all their attention. It’s jus… who wouldn’t be suspicious of that. That’s not a substantive relationship. that sort of effort put in could never last long term. I just hate how gullible they are