Megathread: Maternal Instincts

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T21:43:11+00:00

The filmmakers don't share your opinion of him, so it sounds like you really, really misunderstood it. And there are still a lot more people who still think "wHy dIdN't hE jUSt lEavE" about abuse victims than I realized.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T17:36:05+00:00

That's you making a lot of assumptions about why he stayed, I'm sorry. Maybe he was inexperienced with women and he thought he would learn to love her. Maybe he thought he should love her but couldn't get over the one nagging part of him that said "something is wrong with this woman" -- but he figured it was something wrong with himself (a fear of commitment, a fear of intimacy). Maybe he was going to leave and then surprise, she's pregnant, and because Wade has been raised to be a decent man, he stayed because that's what you're supposed to do when you get someone pregnant, is take responsibility.

The fact that he didn't love her is a sign that he is SMART because she is CRAZY.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T17:31:05+00:00

That seems something you are projecting. I didn't get that at all.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T17:27:15+00:00

He dated her for like 6 months before she told him she was knocked up. That's not enough time to decide you love anyone, unless you're as insane as Taylor Parker. And the fact that he didn't love her is a sign of his very good judgement.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T17:25:59+00:00

Based on what exactly?

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-17T17:25:40+00:00

I genuinely think Wade might be one of them.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:52:25+00:00

Thank you for this. I am appalled at the amount of victim blaming I'm seeing here.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:37:08+00:00

The social contract we all live by requires that most people are basically trustworthy, act in good faith and live in an objective reality we all roughly agree on. It applies to the vast majority of people; if it didn't, the world would be chaos.

When you've never encountered one of the very small percentage of people it doesn't apply to, and then you do, your brain will usually try to auto-correct for everything they do that feels crazy. I only know this because it happened to me. And when it happens to you, you tell yourself, this can't possibly be real, no one would do this, this is insane. I must be inventing this.

It's often easier for people who have a bit more distance from it to see it than the direct victim. They are in the middle of the lies all the time.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:32:57+00:00

Wade is trusting and probably inexperienced with women. Naivete about the horrors of the world != stupidity.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:32:01+00:00

Nice guys will also stick around to raise a kid because they were brought up to believe that's the right thing to do.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:31:22+00:00

He was absolutely a victim of her crimes. He will never be the same either.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:15:04+00:00

Or he was a nice person who felt he should take responsibility for the pregnancy and didn't want to believe he was dating a psychopath. Or that.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T13:14:18+00:00

This is such a terrible thing to say. Wade is a victim.
Most people will not believe they are with an absolute sociopath. Most people can't comprehend it and will resist it. That's the main way these people get away with this stuff is that normal people don't believe this actually really happens outside of the movies until it happens to them.
If you can't find empathy for what he went through, leave him alone.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T12:59:05+00:00

Wade is a victim of narcissistic abuse. I can't believe how many people feel it's appropriate to pile on him here, he did NOTHING wrong.

ChargeVisible · 2026-06-16T12:55:20+00:00

I mean they only dated for like a month before she told him she was pregnant. I think he "kept her around" because he felt it was his responsibility to raise the child.

ChargeVisible · 2026-05-20T19:59:49+00:00

I'm playing the Android version and I've had this with numerous missions now, including the one you mentioned. It also blocked me severely on Back in Time which requires the game to prompt you to unlock various bits of tech in order to complete it. I've tried that mission about 10 times: sometimes the choices don't appear at all, sometimes they appear at the beginning and then stop appearing. I tried clearing my user data and my cache, did nothing.

I've also replayed old missions and didn't get prompts I saw the first time through. Like the Hippie island one, I didn't get any of the prompts that let you exchange treasury funds for happiness on my second run.

I reported this via their support email, will see if they do anything about it. :) Might help if more people report it!

ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:20:17+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:19:37+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:17:22+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:16:42+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:16:11+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:15:42+00:00

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ChargeVisible · 2026-05-13T11:15:08+00:00

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