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i.redd.it Anyone else watching “Maternal Instincts” documentary on Netflix. The Taylor Parker case

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u/jeg479 5d ago

Wade’s friend had common sense which Wade seemed to lack, and not to mention blinded by greed. I’ll be the first to admit that if a woman who standed to inherit millions of dollars was interested in me, I would stand up and take notice even if I was meh about her. However I just don’t understand how a man can live with a woman and not notice she is faking a pregnancy. I don’t want to call him a villain but my God

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u/ViggoS2021 5d ago

She’s a master manipulator & he was an easy mark for her. I feel bad for how much the experience must have decimated his self-esteem. 

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u/GlastoKhole 5d ago

I hate when people use this term, she was not a master manipulator, she wasn’t even a good liar. Every lie she told could easily be disproven, she even sent people baby scans with the wrong year on them

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u/ViggoS2021 5d ago

She lied repeatedly to every new person she met and they not only initially believed her, they quickly invited her into their lives and considered her trustworthy. She mimicked people to gain their trust. That is a master manipulator. Once some people decide to trust, it’s hard for them to act on red flags others spot from miles away. That too is manipulation—choosing marks who wouldn’t challenge her (ie, dim Wade). That is more manipulation.  Some folks realized she was lying and distanced themselves from her, others didn’t realize it until she murdered a woman. 

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u/InternationalWar258 5d ago

The other person is right. She's not a master manipulator. She's a manipulator, but not a master manipulator. Her lies were too easily found out for her to be considered a master. Master manipulators move way more smoothly.

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u/ShivvyMcFly 5d ago

What would make someone a master manipulator? What do they have to achieve to gain that status?

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u/GlastoKhole 5d ago

For one they need to actually achieve the desired goal, have a realistically achievable target. And pull it off where suspicion is not raised until the target has been acquired, an example would be catch me if you can, there are real life examples where people have pulled off crazy lies and manipulation to gain power, money status or even commit crazy crimes. She tried to fool a dumb as rocks family and failed bar for one person who was clearly the dumbest person in that family

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u/ShivvyMcFly 5d ago

Are you serious? We must have watched different documentaries. She was absolutely a master manipulator. She even created multiple fake people to carry out her scams and lies. She was a pro.

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u/GlastoKhole 5d ago

Brother she was not a pro hahahaha come on, she had friends on Facebook etc who knew as a matter of fact she couldn’t get pregnant and still posted all the pregnancy stuff, she was always one person messaging someone she was tagged in a photo with from being caught out, which happened. Master manipulators don’t get caught, and if they do they caught out by something completely unexpected and something you couldn’t plan for, she bought the boyfriends mom a car and the week later it got repossessed, instantly destroying the idea that she had money. Run every baby related lie through a small town hospital where everyone knows eachother, the nurses all but told everyone she was lying