Snow Turtle
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I never said that the mother forced the child to suicide, just illustrating what depths a fragile young mind can sink to at the hands of a manipulative adult. I agree about lack of family support, which is why I suggested that the child's parents be informed of this.
Key word being manipulative.
Don't know how stable or loving it is, but I can guess that he'll look back on it and will think it was creepy, at best. Again, would you feel this way if a 26 year old man formed a romantic relationship with a 14 year old girl? A kid barely out of junior high? Can you truly see nothing disturbing about that? And furthermore, this woman encouraging a child to sneak around and lie to his parents for 2 years is not responsible, healthy behavior for a normal adult. She clearly has mental issues and is clearly unstable. They catch people like this on television shows for a reason.
At the very least his parents should know about this (or any girlfriend), even if you don't think it's morally or legally wrong for the relationship to continue.
Well alright, it's an assumption to say that it's a loving and stable relationship but to be fair that applies both way. Nobody can make concrete judgements because they aren't involved in the situation and lack all the details.
Does the women clearly have mental issues? Is she really unstable?
How can you conclude that based on just a paragraph? I'm sure N's can appreciate the uncomfortable feeling of being viewed as crazy by society because they don't neccessarily adhere to social norms. It's possible that she's just an extremely idealistic women who believes love conquers all.
I'll admit that I'd be slightly iffy about a 26 old man with a 14 year old girl. But personally I believe that's because I've been conditioned to think so by society. In the same manner I'd be disturbed with incest, however I personally believe that these people aren't bothering anybody and that there is no real reason to condemn them apart from disgust based on nothing.
To be honest I find it more sad than immoral that the women has to encourage the child to hide their relationship until a later age. (Obviously she will have to come out at some point.) To me it just reflects more on society not being able to deal with this sort of behaviour, rather than the couples themselves.
Now if the parents and society could handle the information maturely that'd be okay. BUT reality is extremely different as shown here.