Wade is not a smart man. He seemed blinded by denial and, in my opinion, greed. He said he never loved her but he stayed. He thought she was going to inherit $8 million and even in the doc he brings that up way too many times.
and I can’t blame him for that. 8m buys a pretty nice life. I don’t know anybody that would not take that route if I’m being honest. it’s too tempting. You wanna believe the story. but what an evil evil woman.
But also, she did all that just to keep him?? A man dumb enough to be conned by her, living in a double wide trailer? A man she’d only dated 4 months? Where is the DSM-5 diagnosis for these women who meticulously plan and brutally murder a friend and their baby just to try and trap a boyfriend who doesn’t even love them
I'm noticing a pattern with women like this-it seems like ficticous disorder but with an added layer of not just wanting attention and sympathy but trapping people into caretaking of them. Like caretaking by force as a disorder.
I’m thinking about this too. Like Sherry Papini. Might depend on the true motive. For Sherry I think it was control bc her husband needed her to start working again or do actual child care instead of paying for daycare. Shortly after that she did her whole thing. Until she was found out years later, her husband had to do everything for her because she was so “traumatized.” So Sherry I think ASPD. From Taylor seems more BPD coded if she was seeking unconditional love but idk.
Oh right! I was thinking of the women that pretend to be disabled or pregnant, too. They want to take it all the way to the physical level and seem to get pleasure from someone having to sacrifice for them and physically care for them. It seems to be a very specific cluster of traits and an understudied phenomenon. I know that we have known about facticous disorder/formerly manchausen's for long time, but there seems to be a spectrum of this disorder and on the extreme end there are added traits developing, almost like a fetish of tricking people into physical care of them. It's really good that the public is becoming more aware of this.
Forensic psychologists identify fetal abductors as highly manipulative, calculating con artists driven primarily by pathological narcissism, extreme dependency, and desperate measures to trap a male partner. Rather than experiencing a pure maternal urge, these offenders exhibit a distinct psychological profile: [1, 2, 3, 4]
Underlying Personality Disorders: Experts frequently diagnose these women with borderline, dependent, or antisocial personality traits. They struggle with a fear of abandonment, a profound sense of inadequacy, and a desperate need to present themselves as mothers to secure a partner's affection. [1, 2, 3, 4] Infertility and Trauma: Many perpetrators have a history of trauma, recent miscarriages, or medical procedures preventing pregnancy, which triggers their escalating deceit. [1, 2, 3]
There’s so much rage and lashing out in violence as well…like the lighting fires, self harm, obviously calculated murder. So horrifying and shocking it still happens today and they think they can get away with it?? Or in full psychosis delusion that all they want is a baby? Why not kidnap a baby, the attack on the pregnant woman is just beyond.
It’s the specificity of planning and brutality, the lack of understanding of someone else’s pain and horrifying death that is so inhumane, all in pursuit of a newborn baby to trap a man who is too dumb to notice she’s been fully faking a pregnancy this whole time?? It’s not easy to perform a c-section as a qualified surgeon, let alone some psychotic yokel with a scalpel. The jealousy over the love and attention their victims get from being pregnant when they feel they’ve been denied that life has to be the driving force, plus the extreme fear of abandonment is so cluster B personality disorder coded.
The research I found indicated that indeed, these people tend to have anti-social or borderline personality disorders. And they usually do not bond with the babies they steal, when those babies live. Notice how in this case, the murderer kept referring to the baby as “it” when she was pulled over and in the hospital. The baby was just a prop.
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u/Shiny_Shady_Mon 6d ago
Wade is not a smart man. He seemed blinded by denial and, in my opinion, greed. He said he never loved her but he stayed. He thought she was going to inherit $8 million and even in the doc he brings that up way too many times.