[Anjae]

Have to watch that one. Thanks for the tip, Nas.

[Not Applicable]

This just caught my attention:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6156883/Sally-Field-says-recreating-relationship-sexually-abusive-stepfather-Burt-Reynolds.html

This sounds exactly like an MLC relationship. It also shows as some of us have been discussing on another thread, that single people can go into MLC and get into a relationship that looks a lot like an MLCer-OP relationship without leaving a spouse to do it.

[Not Applicable]

It looks like MLC to me:
http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/bellingham-shooting-chester-county-pennsylvania-bruce-rogal-divorce-family-20180920.html

I mean why else kill your parents in connection to your divorce from your wife? Childhood issues must have played a role here.

[Anjae]

It looks like MLC to me:
http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/bellingham-shooting-chester-county-pennsylvania-bruce-rogal-divorce-family-20180920.html

I mean why else kill your parents in connection to your divorce from your wife? Childhood issues must have played a role here.

Who knows why he killed his parents. Who knows why they were divorcing. Saying this is MLC does not make much sense. This is an insane man.

"... and gunned them down in a violent outburst that betrayed the love — and financial support — they had provided him for years." parents seem to have been quite supportive of him.

Lets not see MLC where there may be none. A lunatic is a lunatic.

[Not Applicable]

Financial support doesn't mean there wasn't other kind of abuse going on. My FIL provided my H with the financial support to become a doctor, but he also beat and tortured him to focus on his studies that got him there. Just because the article says they were "loving" doesn't mean they were.

Also, the part about him not being eligible for social security disability payments suggests he was living off of others' or passive income most of his life because you only have to have worked 6 years to be eligible for that. Maybe he was angry because they never gave him the chance to stand on his own and get a job.

You also missed the part about the affair that had been going on since 2011 with the requisite MLC motorbikes.

[nah]

The recent death of Burt Reynolds has brought up the interesting relationship he had with Sally Fields.

Now, I'm not too sure if it was a mid-life crisis, but maybe more of his lifetime obsession with the "grass is greener" syndrome.

As a LBS of a vanisher, it just seemed interesting to me that they both spoke to each other only by using the press.  Sally Fields even voiced on The View, that is exactly what Burt did over the years.

If you have time, look up interviews of each of them about each other.  Just interesting to me that they both seemed to agree that the other was the love of their lives, yet they didn't speak to each other.

What a shame.

[Nas]

Sally has said in interviews for her book that she was reliving and attempting to "correct" her relationship with her abusive stepfather through her relationship with Burt.  Definitely shows the reasons why people are attracted to each other and reminded me of the relationship some MLCers have with their OP of choice.

[nah]

I saw somewhere that she also said she felt safe writing about him because she knew he wouldn't read it and she didn't want to hurt him.

[Not Applicable]

No, she said she felt relieved he had died before it was published as it would have hurt him.

But yes, I agree with Nas, definitely Sally was the MLCer. Burt was the OP. Although neither was in a relationship when they got together.

[Nas]

I don't actually feel that either of them was an MLCer.  I do think a lot of their issues parallel what we see in MLC though.  I think Burt was a narcissist and Sally was a woman dealing with many demons from her childhood.  There are so many hurting people out there dealing with things in different ways.