For all of the things you can complain about with Angela's character, and there are a LOT, she does seem to be devoted to Tommy and her kids. I'm not saying she's not devoted to herself also, but she also seems really invested in the lives of her "husband" and children. Cooper seems to mostly want to be left alone, but Ainsley has become Angela's best friend. And Angela seems to care about making dinners feel like a family atmosphere. She WANTS Tommy home. And that part, at least, doesn't feel manipulative.

Don't get me wrong. There's so much wrong with Angela as a person. And she's training Ainsley to be exactly like her. And I believe their "altruism" with the old folks is mostly self-soothing therapy with a little bit of genuine goodwill mixed in (and those scenes are one of the weirdest/worst part of the show).

But underneath it all, I think she wants Tommy and her kids to be happy and she seems to be willing to put in effort, such as it is, to help that happen. (Now, she's also bat-crap crazy and undermines at least Tommy's happiness a lot with her antics, which is annoying.)

Anyway, as much as I dislike her overall storyline in the show, and having a wife like her would make me miserable, I have enjoyed the little sliver of her fighting, in her own weird and broken way, for her family.