This may be a controversial position, but I don't think Nader is going anywhere. I think this is all part of his long con and the move to Montreal is play-acting to further manipulate Chantal into going all-in, and leaving Beetz and the cats and moving in with him.
I believe most of what Chinny says about him. I think he has filled her empty head with sweet words; telling her how they are going to have a life together and he will take care of her...all she has to do is support his dream of owning his own restaurant/foodtruck and once she invests in him, he will be a big success and she will never have to work again...Chantal would most definitely fall for this hook, line and sinker.
I mean, look at Nader. He is a broke, homely, abusive, ex-con 40 year old immigrant, with no prospect, no future. UNLESS! He can find some lovestruck sucker to con into either keeping him as an aging gigolo or invest in his "dream."
I also believe he is a jealous fucker and he realizes that he better hold onto Chinny by all means, because just like her, this is probably his last chance at grabbing onto a golden ticket. His "love" of her has less to do with actual regard, and more to do with desperation. His sell-by date has come and gone. He is gaslighting the hell out of her and she is the perfect mark. I would feel bad for Chantal falling prey to this idiot, were it not for her being given every clue that he is a scoundrel. Chantal's oppositional personality, her youtube audience and to a lesser degree, Peetz, are the only foil to his plans.
It must enrage him that she listens to the idiots on her channel and then talks smack about him. Were it not for them, he would have all her money and be able to fuck anyone he felt like without a peep from Chinny.
AND! Chantal loves this tug-of-war over her. It is probably the first time in her life that people have fought over her. It plays right into her personality disorder/s.
Food and dick are huge draws for Chantal, but rules and being ordered about are not. Who or what will win??
It is a War of Attrition and I hope to have the staying power to see who is left standing when all is said and done.
I disagree with this., especially the jealousy part. He's definitely possessive, because he views Chantal as his possession, his ATM, nothing more than an object. If we on the Farms don't regard Chantal as a human being, how do you think Nader sees her? Not only does he have ingrained misogyny, having grown up in an extremely patriarchal society, but she has demonstrated to him since the very first day that she has absolutely no self-worth, no sense of dignity, no standards, nothing going on in her self-inflicted nightmare of an existence, and is dangerously infatuated--no,
psychotically obsessed--with him. I don't believe that he regards himself as homely, abusive, without a future, hopeless, and without any prospects; Nader's self-esteem is
just fine. He was here for nigh on a dozen years before this Chernobyl slug slithered into his life, throwing cash, gifts, blowjobs, electronics, and rent at him without question.
His Egyptian values dictate that he feels women should be there to serve men, and are best existing as housewives. His alleged flailing over Bibi and Pee is because Chantal belongs to him; simple as that. He is not progressive, and he doesn't believe that exes can maintain a platonic friendship. Once a woman has pledged herself to him--and sealed it with a fucking smooch on his feet--she may as well get a red-hot cattle brand with his name on it and press it onto her forehead (and truthfully, I can actually see Chantal doing this if he asked her to). She would do anything,
anything for this motherfucker. And he knows it. His ego takes offense to her talking shit about him on YouTube, but who wouldn't become enraged by this? I am actually impressed that he doesn't utterly explode with curse words, threats, name-calling, and violent talk when this happens. He is far more restrained than I could ever hope to be.
Does he sweet-talk her in private? To Chantal, who has zero radar and is a fucking blithering idiot, she hears what she wants to hear. Remember, Nader generally does not give straight answers to the simplest of questions, so I can see this sort of thing happening between them:
"I'm in love with you, Nader! I love you so much!"
"Oh...okay, that nice. Love ees good."
"Do you love ME??"
"I love everybody. Everybody need love."
"But me! Do you love ME?"
"Do you zink I love you?"
"I don't
knoooooooow..." Whiny voice. "You never
say it."
"I no need to say what I zink all the time. What I do ees most important thing."
"But I need to hear it. I say it to you all the time."
"Zat ees you. I am me. We different. I no have to talk all the time."
"So you do love me??"
"Eef you feel I love you, zen I love you."
BAM. Nader officially loves Chantal. That is the extent of him "filling her head with sweet words." He doesn't need to ever resort to that; not in the beginning, not in the last seven months, and most certainly not when she will park herself next to an outhouse in the middle of winter, waiting for him to call.
Yes we are. And it all just takes one step to the left (or right). And I'm here for the new stalker beeze where Chantal one-ups her "hilarious" stalker tale of the hawt 80's "glam rocker" guy whose dad told her to fuck off from their lawn forever or get reamed by the RCMP.