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June 2017 Moms
Wino0920
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This Is Us- Season Finale (may contain spoilers)
Wino0920
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Anyone watch? I'm sure we talked about this before and there are a few of us.
I have been reading online that people are very disappointed in the finale. I thought it was good. I'm really starting to not like Mandy Moore's character. At the end, I was screaming "get up! Go after him!" Like she could hear me. I have a feeling the premier will show just that.
I have been reading online that people are very disappointed in the finale. I thought it was good. I'm really starting to not like Mandy Moore's character. At the end, I was screaming "get up! Go after him!" Like she could hear me. I have a feeling the premier will show just that.
Re: This Is Us- Season Finale (may contain spoilers)
I dislike mandy Moore more with each episode, but having gone though a marriage involving substance abuse, I understand why she didn't just jump right up and run after him.
Random- did any one else feel like there were WAY more commercials than normal? I usually DVR and skip the commercials entirely, however it felt like there was a break every minute. It would make sense given the number of viewers.
Issue 1. She acts like her shit don't stink. She never thinks she is in the wrong. In one of the early episodes she even said she was doing a great job parenting and Jack wasn't. Wow... Asshat! I think he is a better parent than her hands down. Also more devoted to the marriage/family it seems.
Issue 2. As an adoptee, I find her character selfish.
bc she was threatened is beyond infuriating. If I found out my mom did that to me we'd have a major situation on our hands (she didn't, my adoption was legit closed and my birth mom rejected my request for reunification).
I want to scream at her!!! And poor Randall! He got such a short amount of time with his bdad. So many tears!!!
My sister's dad(technically half sister but I don't like saying that) was bad into drugs and my mom denied all access to her. She still to this day has never met him, she is 42. It was the best decision at the time and that's what mothers have to do.
The reason of not wanting to loose him, feel her, but if that was the only reason, I would definitely say selfish.
I also read 7 theories as to how Jack dies... I am not convinced any of them are correct. A lot of them seemed too far fetched for this series. (murder, etc.)
I've been in a situation where I felt betrayed by my parents as result of withheld information and let me tell you there is no pain in the world that can compare to feeling that level of betrayal by the people you should be able to trust most. These are people who shielded me from the ignorance of the world and I relied on for my sense of self. I was bullied for being adopted. I was physically assaulted by kids who thought it was funny to pick on the adopted kid because "her real parents thought she was garbage so she deserves this". I had ignorant peers and even family members who made hurtful comments such as "she is adopted so she doesn't have a real family" or "Oh you look so pretty. You and [insert her son's name] should marry someday because you're not real cousins anyway". I was a closed adoption and didn't have much interest in looking for my biological parents. My parents were my world. I was however curious what my bio parents looked like and what lead them to their decision to place me. Perhaps a need for added validation that I wasn't worthless to them. When my parents were on a trip, I found some paperwork that included a letter from my biological mother and referenced an attached picture of them with me at the hospital. It shocked me and I was upset that the pic seemed to be missing. I asked my parents when they returned "I know you've always said you don't know anything about them, but do you have any info or a picture of my biological parents? Even something I can have when I'm older?". They said "we have nothing". As amazing as my parents are, that caused a rift between us bigger than you could imagine. I isolated myself from the only people I ever felt complete around for years! It literally took years to mend just that minor infraction. Trust me... this kind of withheld info can hurt an adopted child in the worst ways.
I just also see a mother that may have thought she was doing the best and it bit her in the ass. I make decisions everyday for my kids, with only then their best interest in mind, but it still might turn out to be wrong.
I would have liked to see more of the kids. I did really like Randall expressing that he wants to adopt a baby! I thought that was a great way to set up his story line for the future.
In adoption you don't have the privilege of just doing what you think is best. You have to consider that your child has another family and good or bad, the child deserves a chance to know that family. So many adoptive parents do this to their kid and it's tragic.
As an adoptee and an adoptive mom I can tell you there are very few reasons to keep a child away from their family. The only reason I would is for extreme safety concerns (ex- birth family directly threatening physical harm). Even in the case of birth parents that are addicts you can be honest with your kids about where they come from and the identity of their families. This part of the show was set back in the 80's and it was a different time. This was the norm. Thank goodness things are changing.
Sorry, I'm a huge advocate for open adoption (for the sake of the mental health of the adoptee) and I could write a novel on this haha!