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Kate Gosselin Tells Her Story |
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How many interviews is this now with the tears? 5? 6? 8? #kateherstory
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I'm not getting a lot of work done, but I am finding them more tolerable. #kateherstory
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(not to say Jon isn't a total ass himself) #kateherstory
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I can't stand Jon Gosselin and I know that and the reason I'm so interested in this story is because of my own experience. Con artists are great at making themselves look like angels while making others look like the bad guy. There are still people who think my ex is the sweetest person, while others know what a crazy douche he is. I also have the feeling that Kate had no idea exactly how immature Jon was (or still is) before they married. I remember thinking my ex had tricked me into marrying him by acting like a somewhat normal human being while we were dating, because he sure as hell dropped the act later.
End rant. #kateherstory
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He also says many times that he wasn't ready to have kids, but Kate wanted it so badly, he gave in. Again, Kate's reaction is something like, "I wasn't waiting until he was ready!"
I'm not saying any of this as a reflection on your situation at all, but I think with J&K, there were a lot of red flags, both for Kate and for Jon. #kateherstory
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@Crabby Cakes: I didn't know that about them. I knew two weeks into my marriage that I had made a mistake. Looking back, there were red flags that I either didn't notice or chose to ignore, but it was nothing like after the ceremony when the shit hit the proverbial fan. Ugh. I cringe just thinking about it. There definitely were a lot of differences from J&K, it just reminds me a lot of what happened to me. #kateherstory
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From the clips of J&K I've seen, Jon struck me as one of the mentally absent dads I've encountered in my days. These guys will be sitting in the living room while one of their children is crying and the other is parked next to Dad on the sofa chewing on a firecracker with a leaking diaper. Never does Dad's attention deviate from the soccer game or Gears of War 2 or whatever. When Mom comes in to investigate and get reasonably perturbed, Dad will be like, "Why are you raising your voice? I wasn't doing anything."
The problem, of course, is the not-doing-anything. There are some men who are incapable, for whatever reason, of hearing women unless the women are infuriated. They will ignore ten soft-pedaled suggestions that they accomplish something but will hear the eleventh one only when it's delivered at 140 decibels. Wives eventually learn to skip the preliminaries and go straight to severity. Their husbands have trained them to do so. No sane person continues using an ineffective technique.
After the separation, Jon bought a two-seater convertible and rented a two-bedroom apartment for himself in New York City. That says volumes about how much hands-on parenting he does of his own volition.
And to claim now that well, he never wanted all these children anyway is infantile blame-shifting. Reminds me of Adam in the Garden of Eden: "The woman tempted me, and I did eat." Spare me. No one force-fed Adam and Kate didn't steal Jon's sperm while he slept. It's beyond me how anyone can defend him at this point. You don't have to adore Kate to acknowledge that Jon is insufferably irresponsible. #kateherstory
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Had to share this with everyone. Probably the best Jon and Kate costume I saw this Halloween. #kateherstory
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Yes, they have.
Are we sick of the Gosselins now and forever?
Yes, we are.
Do we wish the Gosselins would sink back into anonymous parenthood and let their children grow up in peace and normality?
Yes, but I don't know if that will ever happen. Sucks to be their children. Sucks to be us. #kateherstory
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And I, for one, have consistently found both John and Kate to be odious people and terrible parents. No shifting perceptions here. #kateherstory
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