SS - Did anyone get screwed out of a present?

[dowagercountess]

I think she's made it clear she had some residual issues left over as result of some trauma. While I think she is dramatic, the basic fundamentals of her story are true. I am not friends with her sister, I have spoken with her sister several times out of concern for jlm. I have both spoken with her on the phone and communicated through fb. Her sister is real.

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Jan 7, 2013 14:16:37 GMT -5 julesf84 said:

Damn! I'm gonna have to re-read this entire thread later on my laptop because I can't see the gifs in their proper hilarious form.

Yes. Yes you will. There has been some quality gif usage in this thread.

[scotty]

Ah. No hate toward the mentally ill, just curious how much was fabricated. I hope that jlm is getting the help that she needs.

[sb]

Jan 7, 2013 14:18:50 GMT -5 elle said:

I just want to know if she was really raped.

Are you fucking kidding me? Seriously, read that sentence to yourself and rethink exactly how shitty it is.

[papie]

Jan 7, 2013 14:24:09 GMT -5 luckyval said:

eta: and somebody give papie a hug, seriousli!

LOL

[lucky513]

11d was the one that asked about the down baby

[papie]

Ok, thanks DC.

[poppyseed]

I never felt like she was dramatic before, until we moved over here from TN. When she was CU on the nest, I just remember some crappy posts about her then H, and then she took a break and had J while on the break. Over here, she posts a lot and most of the time I feel she posts things she knows will get attention, like her pictures or the stuff about the nanny.

Dowager, does E live with her full time?

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jan 7, 2013 14:30:32 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

Jan 7, 2013 14:27:28 GMT -5 dowagercountess said:

I think she's made it clear she had some residual issues left over as result of some trauma. While I think she is dramatic, the basic fundamentals of her story are true. I am not friends with her sister, I have spoken with her sister several times out of concern for jlm. I have both spoken with her on the phone and communicated through fb. Her sister is real.

I hope her family is helping her and giving her lots of support.

Monetary? They have that covered. Taking one of her kid? Covered. She takes and takes and takes from them. Not sure what else they can do for her.

[poppyseed]

Also, it does seem like her family is very supportive. I hope she gets help.

[angelaa73]

Jan 7, 2013 14:30:03 GMT -5 lucky513 said:

11d was the one that asked about the down baby

I am 100% that bamker knows this and was joking with you rubes

sent from my auld lang syne, my dear

[papie]

Jan 7, 2013 14:33:37 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Jan 7, 2013 14:27:28 GMT -5 dowagercountess said:

I think she's made it clear she had some residual issues left over as result of some trauma. While I think she is dramatic, the basic fundamentals of her story are true. I am not friends with her sister, I have spoken with her sister several times out of concern for jlm. I have both spoken with her on the phone and communicated through fb. Her sister is real.

How far beyond the City of Basic Fundamentals do we have to travel to reach the Forest of Utter Bullshit? I'm guessing not far.

I am guessing we won't have an answer about that here

[angelaa73]

Jan 7, 2013 14:33:43 GMT -5 poppyseed said:

Also, it does seem like her family is very supportive. I hope she gets help.

You say supportive, I hear enabling

sent from my auld lang syne, my dear

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I always wondered how JLM had so much support but was in the situation she was in for so long.

A dad who spends like 30k a year paying for childcare... A sister that will take in her children as her own... A pretty decent job/salary based on the pictures of the house she bought recently...

And yet, she was married to that jackass and apparently forced to have his child against her will.

If she has a dad who can drop 30k like its nothing every year... why wasn't she asking for his help/money to get out of her abusive marriage??

It does not add up.

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Jan 7, 2013 14:33:37 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Jan 7, 2013 14:27:28 GMT -5 dowagercountess said:

I think she's made it clear she had some residual issues left over as result of some trauma. While I think she is dramatic, the basic fundamentals of her story are true. I am not friends with her sister, I have spoken with her sister several times out of concern for jlm. I have both spoken with her on the phone and communicated through fb. Her sister is real.

How far beyond the City of Basic Fundamentals do we have to travel to reach the Forest of Utter Bullshit? I'm guessing not far.

cjoy, you are killing me.

[dowagercountess]

She does have E full time, but her family is very supportive.

[EmilieMadison]

Ok. I'm going to just lay it out here.
I have no idea if jlm is real or not, or if she is, if what she's saying is all real. But there's a lot of stuff that makes me doubt that it's all true.

She was in one of the most abusive relationships imaginable, with a husband who emotionally, physically and sexually abused her, refused to let her terminate a pregnancy and is beyond controlling in every other way. And then she files for divorce and he's like "Yeah, that's cool. Go on, now. I'm not going to fight you on this." ?? Including just giving up parental rights? You'd think he'd be out to hurt her every possible way, to make leaving the hardest thing for her to do ever. She got divorced faster than most people who do it amicably.

She sells her house and buys a new one in like a month.

Newly single mothers are usually WAY worse off financially than they were during marriage. Except jlm. Beautiful townhouse in an expensive, in-demand area, nanny (she said her dad pays for the nanny...), going out, etc. Not that someone SHOULDN'T do/have these things if they're single moms, but typically, it's a big struggle and it seems like jlm has somehow managed to be at least as comfortable as she was during her marriage with a dual income.

Random $400 in the mailbox.

She made dozens of tamales (one of the most labor and time intensive recipes) from scratch by memory the day her baby comes home from the hospital.

She only ever posts pics of her kid from several months ago. Like, she AWed E right before Christmas (or right after thanksgiving) but the pics were all from summer?

NO ONE has met her, even though she is desperate for support and many people have offered to help and have invited her to things.

There's just something about the culmination of all of these things (and more) that leave me a doubter.

[karmasabiotch]

What's clear is how good of a person DC continues to be.

[julesf84]

How has Proboards not imploded from all of this traffic? I'm impressed.

[poppyseed]

Jan 7, 2013 14:34:57 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

Jan 7, 2013 14:33:43 GMT -5 poppyseed said:

Also, it does seem like her family is very supportive. I hope she gets help.

You say supportive, I hear enabling

sent from my auld lang syne, my dear

This is true.


You guys are opening my eyes. I can be a pretty naive person.

[Deleted]

And what emiliemadison said.

[margotmacomber]

Jan 7, 2013 14:37:05 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Jan 7, 2013 14:33:37 GMT -5 cjoy said:

How far beyond the City of Basic Fundamentals do we have to travel to reach the Forest of Utter Bullshit? I'm guessing not far.

Right now we are languishing in the Sea of Preposterous Presumption amidst the Cone of I Know More Than You Silence.

:-(

[dowagercountess]

Look, I am not going to put someone's personal shit out there. Shame me for that if you want LHC, but I just won't. I am trying to tactfully say that she's not completely in her right mind, and that should be taken into consideration.

[Deleted]

Cjoy. You are fucking killing me dude. I am crying from laughter.

[TrickyBob]

Jan 7, 2013 14:37:05 GMT -5 julesf84 said:

How has Proboards not imploded from all of this traffic? I'm impressed.

Lol, every time you refresh it counts it as another hit. So it's just the same amount of people refreshing!

[poppyseed]

She told me that her ex called her incessantly and tried to get back into their old house once after their divorce was final, and he was arrested. She said she has a restraining order against him, but now that she's moved and has a new job, he and his family have no way of getting in touch her or finding her.

[papie]

I'm just going to be honest and go sit next to emiliemadison. Because then there is also the "everyone" post, and the boyfriend so soon after (not that there is anything wrong with that, but when you are in an abusive relatinship, you would think you would be hesitant to jump in another one so soon) and the fact that she generally seems so on top of everything, where normal people would be a gross mess.

I don't know...it is just all odd.

ETA: Oh and to be clear, I believe DC when she says the basic fundamentals seem true. But I think there is a lot of BS mixed with the basic truth, you know, like movies based on true facts.

[EmilieMadison]

I admit, I have no idea WHAT I think isn't true. I just think *something* is off.

[speckledfrog]

These conspiracy theories are starting to get in my head and now I am left wondering if the sister is real. Did I wander into the Pit of Tin Foil Leaps and Bounds?

[fuckstick]