Anthony's real vision problem.....

[dreadedcandiru2]

It occurs to me that Anthony would be a perfect fit for the Patterson family because he can't see any perspective but his own. Like everyone around him, he wants what he wants when he wants it and everyone else had better get out of his way and let him have it. I saw the first sign of this when Liz, in her own sweetly selfish way, had decided she'd wanted to see other people because she'd grown bored with him. He, unknown to her, had decided he wanted to look cool and hang with the car nuts and he didn't think he needed the Breath hanging off him so he broke up with her first. off_model best described the mess he made of his marriage by the following phrase: "Define 'forsaking'". Simply put, he thought (and still thinks) that he had every right to stand there and ogle his old girlfriend and if his wife didn't like it, that was just too bad. The spectacle of his not really caring how badly Thérèse's post-partum depression had messed her up is one of the more appalling images I've seen in the last while. All that mattered to him was that he wasn't getting what he wanted. If she didn't want the same thing, she was a bad person whose needs and hopes he didn't have to respect. The second most disturbing thing he's done was the "I have no home" incident. He didn't actually care how scared Liz was at all. He came there to whine about how bad he had it and blew off her real trauma because he was the guy. Seeing him strong-arm his child into accepting the woman who wants to replace her mommy by appealing to her fears is simply the latest loathesome act of selfishness from a man born to whine his way into getting what he wants and to hell with anyone else.