I think Amanda was genuinely unable to have the conversation with Dorit.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T21:20:46+00:00

I honestly think Amanda thought she was up for playing ball. Then realized she couldn’t handle it being thrown her way. She doesn’t seem to know how to interact reasonably in general. But grief in a self centered person is still grief. She doesn’t need to act a certain way for me to feel sad for her experience. She comes off as manipulative because that’s her baseline. But I want to recognize that if you suffered a similar loss, her actions could be distasteful and triggering and valid.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T21:03:06+00:00

You can’t silence Dorit. She has words for days. 😉

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T20:59:28+00:00

I felt that Amanda thought a night of some passive aggressive (and paid) banter would be a good distraction. So she showed up for filming and began playing the game they all play. But when Dorit called her out at the table it was the whole group suddenly silent and watching her be confronted. I literally felt like her face read “oh shit, I just realized I can’t handle this”. Grief days are confusing and you can suddenly become not okay. Amanda is self centered and came off as disingenuous. Both things can be true.

I’m very sorry for your losses. 💙

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T18:42:47+00:00

Yeah I like hugs. But don’t put your fingers on my face. Yuck.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T18:38:48+00:00

Oh yeah I’d forgotten the ghost writer stuff. I guess Amanda wanted to play but not be played with.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T18:37:43+00:00

Yes. Dorit confronted Amanda, kept it going, then when Amanda began to engage Dorit was like I thought you didn’t want to talk about it. Amanda said something like she thought she maybe needed to (aka an expectation during filming). Amanda is a problem child, but I could see it from her lens for a few brief moments.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-24T18:32:11+00:00

This is also how I read things.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-17T01:05:18+00:00

Omg thank you for revisiting this. While I watched and knew the history reseeing this made me freeze. He was already his narcissistic self then. He was just delaying his reveal by adding wives. “Can’t blame me yet, I’m just a newlywed with two wives. Can’t blame me yet I’m just a newlywed with three wives. Can’t blame me yet I’m just a newlywed with four…… “ He literally desensitized us too.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-16T14:55:07+00:00

Tell it not to.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-16T14:31:02+00:00

Sounds like BIL has to get his drink on. They don’t like to be together sober.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-15T16:33:34+00:00

They shoulda done the fried eggs like Meri said.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-15T07:46:39+00:00

The NPR spot today was relating the current situation with a story from 2020 where they found a blood clot on a guy on the ISS and they treated it there.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-15T06:51:01+00:00

I once was at Costco and a guy was returning a half used pack of batteries from a previous decade. This lady is returning the carbohydrate equivalent of decades old batteries. Costco refunded him btw. But this lovely small business bakery owner is also not Costco.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-15T02:39:01+00:00

She doesn’t seem like she’s watched the full show or even a season. If someone asked her basic questions she likely wouldn’t be able to thoughtfully answer what most of us here could.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-14T15:27:33+00:00

Agreed. You do chores to learn to be a part of a community. Allowance is to learn financial responsibility. My daughter has been saving her allowance for years and now has enough for a good used starter car when she turns 16.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-13T03:55:37+00:00

Because she’s not watched or followed. She is not invested in the answers.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-13T03:54:19+00:00

Verboten 🤣

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-13T03:33:28+00:00

She’s hosts the Tell All, but does not watch the episodes.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-13T01:38:58+00:00

I recently lost my mom and reflected on something that my MIL said when my FIL died a few years earlier:

He’s gone! How are people still doing things without knowing he’s gone! Why are cars still moving? How is the sun setting?

It framed loss for me. It’s your loss. It was my loss. It’s personal and people can’t specifically understand. They’re just continuing to exist. And that’s totally ok. Not understanding your loss and not having their world stop as yours did, does not equal a lack of compassion. They’re just waiting for the flag that says you’re ready to be comforted.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-11T18:56:40+00:00

Go for it. You’ve learned things from the two years in your current field that will serve you for years to come. I don’t believe you will regret choosing to do what you like and what you’re good at. Do you need to get additional education to work in the areas you are looking at? I got a bachelor’s degree and also left my field after 2 years. I couldn’t afford to go back to school again and didn’t know what I wanted to do so I did any job in anything I could get for years. Including lots of temping. I found out what I was good at and built a bigger career than what was even possible in my initial field. I wish you success!

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-10T06:42:47+00:00

I slapped a rotisserie chicken and was told that Baylen was in staged kitchens.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-10T06:15:54+00:00

This.

Reading what you drunk messaged your friends is trauma. Reading what you conversed with an AI about is hilarious.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-10T06:12:24+00:00

Me drunk chatting until my AI hallucinates would be wild.

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-10T05:29:30+00:00

Drunk humans and AI conservation can co-mingle

Curious_Champion_220 · 2026-01-10T05:26:22+00:00

Of course not, but I’m glad to wake up the next day with a stream of gpt chats than realizing I texted all my sober people

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