Lovequest Misc Open Relationship Emails

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ToroidalBoat said:
It would've been nice if Catie had gotten through to Chris on finances. You have to wonder if Borb even attempted to teach Chris proper money management. Bob said on the Emily date that Chris was bad with money, so I'm guessing he may have tried to teach Chris thrift without success. Even Bob taking over Chris' finances after the whole deal with the credit card debt didn't seem to teach Chris anything.
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Catie would have simply been the last in a long line of people who tried to teach Chris some degree of financial responsibility and failed. The problem is that most people have that responsibility taught from early childhood, pocket money becomes part time work becomes full time work. At every stage is the idea of "I have £XX which has to last me until the next payday. Slowly bills and things begin to creep in, first it's clothes (my parents clothed me until I was about 18 but only in basics, if I wanted decent stuff I had to pay for it) Then it's mobile phone bills, then rent, then dating, it all comes in stages. Chris hasn't had that, he's been spoiled his whole life and when the time came when a normal person would NEED to begin thinking about money, Bob set him up with social security.

Chris' entire life has been a parade of handouts from his parents and from the US Government and he has no perspective on the value of money. Hell, his only real 'money handling' experiences have come from video games so it genuinely surprises me that Chris doesn't walk around smashing pots and stuff hoping money will fall out. Now we are, to some degree, responsible for it. Chris' ebay auctions are the first time he's ever worked for his money but we're not buying his skills, we're buying his infamy (don't get me wrong I want a medallion). On the open market his creations are worthless and the work required to make them is negligible. The money he receives from the auctions isn't really earned.
 
Thetan said:
I found the letter from Barb.

First, some quick background. When Chris was, as per usual revealing TMI while he was trying to defend himself to Colin, he provided details about the court case (which Colin promptly looked up online, then called him out for his bad behavior). These emails will be released at some point.

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"My mother doesn't like you." Is it me or does that sound like something from a Hitchcock movie. I picture Chris backlit and stroking a desperately squirming cat, repeating that line in his odd high pitched voice.
 
There was no hope of Catie making a breakthrough with his finances. He's had people totally chew him out before and make clear that his finances are disgraceful, and that didn't lead to any change either. I figure he'll end up working, because sooner or later he'll be forced to. Barb's money will run out eventually and she's too old to go back into the workforce. Forget toys and booze, if Chris doesn't want to be homeless he'll have to find some work.
 
MrsFrizzle said:
Barb gets a pension, so they'll be able to keep the filthy hoard life going.
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So long as she's still alive. If they seriously slimmed down their finances and didn't have to service any debt, they could probably pull it off, but that hole that they've dug is just weighing down their finances. They could try bankruptcy, but no one would lend to them ever again, or even worse, they might extend credit at outrageous rates and Chris would sabotage their finances even more. I guess there's some value in 14bc, but the barbage won't fit in a smaller place and borrowing against the home is very risky.
 
I really hope Barb didn't take out a reverse mortgage on 14BC that she didn't tell Chris about and isn't planning on paying back. That would be a really awful thing to do to Chris. I could see her doing it, though.
 
I find Colin's e-mails hilarious. I honestly believe this is how a normal, non-internet person would react to the awkward, creepy Autism that Chris exudes. Good job, Thetan. When people aren't willing to put up with his stupid shit, they'll either tell him this or simply ban his ass from their store.
 
Dean Ween said:
Transcribed (to my best ability and such):
Collin:
What is between my son & Katie is none of your damn business. Shut ur f'n mouth, your the dumb one trying to tear down someone you can't be face to face.
Our business is none of yours. You live in hell. You will suffer for the attacks on my son.
Mrs. C
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What I'm getting from this, apart from the fact that it sounds like the ramblings of a crazy man on the subway, is that it doesn't look like Barb really had any idea what was going on. Apart from the reference to "Katie," the whole thing just sounds like a generic anti-troll tirade. Did she know Colin was Catie's friend? Did she know Chris was scared that Colin was going to steal Catie away? Or did Chris just wail, "Mo-om, this guy's ruinin' things between me an' Catie! Do something!" until she relented, putting in the bare minimum of effort just to get the manchild off her back?
 
@Thetan: Did Chris ever realize that Colin and Catie hooked up while he was sitting at home coddling Mommy for support? Or did he refuse to even entertain the thought that she picked Colin over him and they had a great time?
(Kind of weird to talk about fictional people like that but *shrug*)
 
Chris said:
I pray that Colin is not trying anything funny with her, even though we are in an open relationship.
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Chris has been getting more and more gratuitously pious (between bouts of anti-theistic rage, anyway).
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
"My mother doesn't like you." Is it me or does that sound like something from a Hitchcock movie. I picture Chris backlit and stroking a desperately squirming cat, repeating that line in his odd high pitched voice.
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Honestly I see Barb's role in this as much worse. Chris-Chan has been the perfect profile for an unstable personality for years now - or at the very least we've come to expect awkward social reactions from him. But that Barb thinks it's acceptable to weigh in on her son's girlfriend's open-relationship-boyfriend with an aggressive hand-written message is really disturbing. I hope she merely did that to pacify him, but I guess that really wouldn't make much of a difference.
 
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