advertising exec burn down his house in divorce case

[picard]

A advertising executive tried to kill his wife by burning down the house. He had been in divorce court for 3yrs.
Yahoo news has a video tape of the incident too.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090708/world/us_divorce_hostage_2

Are divorces this messy?

 

[jophil28]

Choose wisely ,men...very wisely.

Merely 30% of your happiness and fulfilment should come from your woman, but 99% of your misery will come from the wrong one.

 

[Mr. Me]

Shenkman and Tyler, 57, married in 1993. Court records show it was a third marriage for him and a second for her.

"Sometime in late 2004 Nancy withdrew from our relationship. My fatal mistake was not confronting it," Shenkman wrote in that May 2007 email to Tyler's attorney.

Three marraiges have failed on this man and he thinks the *fatal* mistake in his third marriage was in not confronting his wife *after* she already fell out of love with him.

The guy's an idiot. He hasn't a clue.

And his threats of suicide and all are just control ploys borne out of real low self esteem. He's manipulative. He's a loser. No wonder she divorced him.

 

[KontrollerX]

"He's manipulative. He's a loser. No wonder she divorced him."

He's an AFC.

He's been trained from birth by the feminist society to fail.

I pity the man.

He needs the knowledge of our forum to free his mind. :yes:

A true shame we can't reach everybody.

 

[Warrior74]

I guess he took a tip from rapper 50 Cent's playbook. If I can't have it, nobody can.

 

[Mr. Me]

>> He's been trained from birth by the feminist society to fail.>>

I don't think that's to blame. Shakespeare had Romeo threaten suicide to Juliet if he's to be without her love, and that's written hundreds of years before our "feminist society" time period and was understood by the audience back then just as we can understand it today.

I think it's part of the human condition down through the ages. The difference is nowadays we understand that such things are not about love, but about fear, that is, to have these "control freak" traits which that ad exec displayed in order to try and coerce what he wanted from others, and his problem was in not overcoming that trait or even recognizing that he was the problem all along.

These are character flaws that he, like many others, develop in order to cope. But they're not healthy ways to cope. There are better ways, but that means change, and people are loathe to change. It's easier to make excuses then to change, so that's why you hear people blame someone else instead of taking responsibility for their actions ("He made me do it!" and "Now look what you made me do!"), or fault your parents, or fault society, or fault the ex, or simply feign helplessness like you're some newborn with the all too common: "I can't help it! That's just the way I am!".

This is the lesson to learn from his story. It's not about her, it's about being a man and knowing how to walk in this world upright. To become a stronger man, not an insecure chump who burns down homes out of spite, who blames his ex for not wanting to deal with his crap any longer, who feigns pretenses to try and maneuver her back. Like the saying goes, "Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were tougher". His ex, and society, are not to blame for how he decided to handle things.