[Ammi]

..it's funny how we all read the same thing but can have different perspectives of that same thing..when I clicked on this thread/from the title, I fully expected to read something quite weird but found myself feeling how sad it was/yes obviously weird as well but I think she still has a long journey mentally ...I know this is a parent who on the surface and how the story is headlined, has left her family/children for selfish reasons and not someone to have any respect for at all..but from reading an listening to her, she's also someone whose family had and has a complete intolerance of her/of who she really is, which is female...her wife refused to accept her, one of her daughters on inviting her to her wedding, said that she must come as a male, sit at the back and talk to no member of the family...so no acceptance/no tolerance of who her father was..in staying with her family, she would never be able to be who she was because there looks like complete and closed down intolerance...

...as she said, she attempted suicide and at least now, she doesn't have those feeling...even though there are obviously still .mental' things there to address, which I hope that she's able to...would she have got more sympathy or understanding had she succeeded in suicide attempts and taken her life because her environment/family etc prevented her from being who she was, could not accept who she was ..it's hard to say I guess...but yeah, I do feel sympathy and different to how I thought I would when first entering the thread and on hearing her story and listening to her...but as often is the way, we only ever have bite-sized bits of these things to base our perspectives on and I'm sure that her wife and children's story would evoke a different perspective completely...