On Elly and eyeglasses....
Jun. 2nd, 2018 07:59 amThis leaves the people around her with a problem: Elly thinks that she's a more sympathetic and understanding person than she is because she glosses over all the times that she's made her children unhappy and hates to be reminded that this is not the case. It also leaves John with a dilemma in that he cannot simply tell Elly "The reason Liz doesn't come to you with her problems is that when she misplaced her glasses at the beach, you stood there screaming like a maniac for hours on end about how she was a careless, thoughtless monster who hated the family. When she said she was sorry, you didn't listen. When she felt bad, you told me that children just fake that to make you feel guilty for nothing. When they turned up, you didn't apologize because you still think that the kids are trying to destroy you" without having to engage in Klingon foreplay (being roared at, clawed at and having heavy objects hurled at him).