feedtheoctopus
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- Apr 30, 2016
Barb being molested as a kid really puts a lot of her life into context. Her strained relationship with her family, her issues with alcohol, the hoarding, manipulative behavior...Somewhere in the text leak is a mention of Barb "remembering a funny story with her daddy at age two" and Chris emphasizes "age of two" and it just sounds like Barb is a CSA survivor which puts a lot of her shitty parenting into context. I think what a lot of abuse survivors do as parents is try to do the complete opposite of what was done to them because it was abuse it must have been wrong. Except that's not necessarily true, even abusive parents can have good parenting approaches at some points.
If Barb was a neglected child her overcompensating by spoiling/enabling her son would make sense to her as that's what her parents *didn't* do. If she is a CSA survivor it would also explain the poor boundaries. I think I recall her and Chris sharing a bed after Bob died. Though I think she's a narcissist on top of the trauma so she would have probably always been a poor parent, but perhaps not to this extent.
I don't think this changes anything for me beyond putting some pieces in place. NGL, I never thought before Chris would do something this depraved.