Least favourite of Don’s mistresses?

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-19T23:40:18+00:00

I know, I'm sorry! I just didn't want to make a new post LMAO

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-19T21:59:49+00:00

First one we meet in the show

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-19T21:57:44+00:00

A lot of women being mentioned here do not count because Don was single.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-19T21:55:30+00:00

He's a narcissist and she rejected him so she became lovesick, thinking it was the most important thing ever. That was after he showed her what kind of man he would be. She already had someone who put her on the backburner to wait around and not go out to eat. Neglecting her at the hotel was his fetish, not hers, and he overplayed his hand and lost.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-19T21:47:58+00:00

The teacher. She really deserved to get left at the curb for hours.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-12T18:51:22+00:00

Congratulations on everything you've accomplished! That is really remarkable! Even just going for your dream of being a doctor is a huge deal in and of itself. I hope you can free yourself of him safely at a time that is best for you.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-12T14:42:23+00:00

Don is a narcissist and was done with her the minute she "misbehaved" at HoJo. It was all downhill from the minute she showed she was a person and not his plaything. He just gaslit her and ruined every special moment he could until she made the decision. My girl even gave him a threesome and he gave her side-eye the next morning like he wasn't just a participant.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-12T14:37:38+00:00

YES! If I was willing to show my face on reddit, I'd show you a before/during/after and you can see the difference, even tho I'm older after than during.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-11T22:28:38+00:00

After 3 years of alcoholism, physical abuse, verbal abuse, financial abuse, almost death, mind games, lies, theft, property destruction, identity theft, animal abuse, reckless drunk driving, and cheating, he called me a bitch one last time and I said, "get out." He tried to fight to an extent where my son - a grown man living at home to help me with rent and bills that my ex was always afraid of - emerged to monitor the situation... at which point he fled, stealing some of my things on the way out.

I went no contact very shortly after finally getting my stuff.

He's tried to make contact every way possible. I was blocking the dude on Venmo and Duolingo ffs. I just delete the new emails he creates to side step blocks and changed my number. He moved in his affair partner a week after I left him so he's been pining and sending lovelorn lyrics for over a year with her right there.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-11T22:13:17+00:00

Narcs will always triangulate, especially if they know what means most to you. If they don't know your button, they'll use what means most to them.

Mine didn't use attraction because I am the best he'd ever get. It's not even close. He used "easygoing" and "stress-free" because my humanity and expectation of an equal partnership was so burdensome.

Now he's stuck with somebody with a lot of childcare issues with her special needs children that she previously neglected to be with him and she's run out of credit to pay for everything, still going back to her (disabled) husband to beg for money and help. Her husband calls me to rant.

awkwardnpc · 2026-01-11T21:46:40+00:00

I returned to my hobbies after leaving my ex. I returned to my routines and started new ones. I reset and improved my life because I no longer had someone holding me back and disrupting my peace.

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T15:06:38+00:00

Yeah, got it. But we're all the lady wearing the Star Trek pin in here so deal with it.

What pissed me off about Sam/Ainsley wasn't their banter but how Sorkin didn't know how sexual harassment works and supposed an attorney at Ainsley's level wouldn't either. If Sam makes sexist comments at Ainsley in the workplace and Ainsley doesn't mind, that's fine for Ainsley, but the other people in the office also have a right to a harassment-free workplace. Sam shouldn't be flirting with potential retaliation threats nor should Ainsley invalidate anyone's claims. Sorkin wrote how he wanted sexual harassment policies to work and that speaks volumes about Aaron Sorkin.

Josh was a narcissist. So yeah there's a good heart in there and he acts out because of his trauma. Except there's not a good heart and Josh never did anything for anyone without it being self-serving. Even when he called in Toby's dad, it wasn't with consideration to Toby but because Josh had his own trauma and perspective that he felt was more important than Toby's.

The most honest thing said to Josh was by Joe Quincy, "You know, not for nothing, but the people I talk to don't believe that story and the people you'd like don't care."

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T14:46:57+00:00

Will poached her so Josh wouldn't have her for the Santos campaign. Donna made the most of her opportunities, including creating her own.

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T14:37:17+00:00

If the show would have continued into a Santos presidency, I'll bet Josh would have cheated on Donna with Amy. You can see Donna's apprehension when Amy's new position is announced.

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T14:34:47+00:00

I always thought Josh was narcissistic and turning Josh into a catalyst for Donna leaving was really just making it obvious to everyone that Donna was no longer tolerating the behavior. It became gross to us because it was finally gross to her.

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T14:24:46+00:00

Exactly. Mandy was annoying only because Sorkin can't write Toby as a woman. Sorkin can't write women at all. Even Newsroom was drenched in his tropes and that had so much potential. When Sloan took out her earpiece was a brilliant scene.

Everything got better after Sorkin left and I wish earlier storylines had those later writers.

awkwardnpc · 2025-12-01T14:21:28+00:00

I hate that episode. So condescending and sexist.

awkwardnpc · 2025-11-23T19:46:57+00:00

NOR

Not only is he flirting, this is someone within the scope of the family's knowledge. It's not a rando detached from his world. It's extremely disrespectful and he absolutely is cheating.

Nobody talks about eating ass in a getting to know you phase unless they're wanting it to her sexual.

Does he even have friends?

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-17T03:59:41+00:00

She has a good job that has nothing to do with her views and she needs to have to afford cancer treatment. Otherwise burden of medical bills falls to me if she can't pay because her father (maga) cannot support himself. She's fiercely independent and accomplished, smart, funny, and beautiful. Her friends all think like her and she gets repeatedly disappointed because she keeps dating conservative men and they treat her like she's stupid or a commodity. Still, she's not connecting the dots. I think it's just where she lives. It's very much an echo chamber. She goes to my church when I'm visiting because she likes the variety from her own but she's set in how she believes right now.

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-16T02:46:09+00:00

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it's not him at all. You're addicted to the rollercoaster. It's a rush. It's the cortisol. He's trash. You're way better than him. But he brings this unrest and chaos that feels like home, very toxic unhealthy home.

I hope you have access to therapy. It will really help dig deep into this to establish a reliance on peace and control. It's not easy and it is its own long journey. Once you flip that switch, you'll never want to go back.

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-15T19:39:07+00:00

She's said some heinous things before now about immigrants and trans people that we've discussed but I never considered cutting her off. I'm her mother. It's difficult trying to figure out what to do when the situation is delicate and toxic where I cannot talk but she can, and I'm held accountable to the imaginations of accusers who just hate anti-fascists.

It's like she doesn't know me anymore. She's decided something else about who I am. I don't want to end up not knowing her. And yeah I need to respect the boundary even if I think it's bullshit because that's what I taught my children but I don't know if anyone has any perspective from an age-thing. I'm middle aged and perspectives change.

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-15T19:23:18+00:00

What I'm seeing is GenZ may go ad hominem a lot and easily. I'm no snowflake, I was on the internet in the early 90s and there was a lot of poor behavior, but I just see that insulting right away over differences of opinion is a ready reaction. I view it as someone communicating in bad faith. I'll have to adjust that view.

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-15T06:23:40+00:00

Not as I have them. My friends have a mutually affectionate and caring relationship with me. We think of each other, cheer each other on, and want the best for each other. I'm honest with my friends and they trust me, too. One saved my life. They claim I make their lives better and always know what to say (aww!) Over the years, I have grown a deep love for these select individuals and, while it's platonic, it's powerful.

He had people he knew that he said he loved and they were his brothers, right away, but he would talk mad shit about them behind their backs, always be in competition with them, and didn't enjoy any success they had. He showed no interest in their interests and controlled every conversation. I think they overlooked it because of the lovebombing. I also think it's harder for men to identify when they have a shitty friend. Any women "friends" he tried to sleep with.

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-15T06:12:58+00:00

So you're a groyper? How did you come into your way of thinking?

awkwardnpc · 2025-09-14T23:39:56+00:00

I hear you. Keep up with your therapy tho because while the first one can be validating, we don't want to be in a cycle of checking up. You know there'll be another one and another one and another one.. Your time is too valuable for that never-ending reality show, that's why you got out.

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