Brad Pitt Did Not Abuse Anyone People!
Brad Pitt did not abuse anyone.
Here is what most likely happened, in a round about way:
You first meet someone and it's all new, amazing, sex all the time, obsessive love, etc, etc. that person makes you feel whole --- where have you been all my life? blah, blah, blah.
Plus, these two are famous, rich, idolized, scandalous. They refine their brand down to a T, she becomes like a saint, he follows, with charity work, saving the world, etc.
Then, the kids. He desperately wanted kids. One at a time, is generally enough. But within a short time they have 6. This in itself is incredibly stressful. SIX KIDS! Also, think of the issues. The adopted ones verses the biological ones. Even if the parents don't feel any different, the kids might use that. Or the personalities: with 6 kids some will gang up on the others, get along better, etc.
Some will feel closer to one parent than the other and if the parents don't stand together, kids will divide and conquer. Maddox should never have gotten between his mother and father - that's so disrespectful. And yet he was allowed to, and now this. His dad, her husband, is the "bad guy". This is not a family, this is Angie pitting the kids against their father.
Then add the careers. The nannies all the time --- I would HATE having strangers in my home all the time. The normal marital issues: okay, not money with these two (unless they fight over the 20 mil difference lol) but you become complacent with someone. Life, no matter how exciting, gets routine. Relationships take work.
The parenting issues. She has no boundaries. NO BOUNDARIES EQUALS INSANITY with one child. Imagine six of them! It's not good for the kids, or the parents. He wants boundaries. Bedtimes. Routine. Etc. You can't have kids uprooted like that. In other famous families, one stays home and provides the anchor. There is no anchor here.
Oh, then there is Shilo, who has her own issues. This, again, would be a great concern for the parents -- but AJ wants to let her have hormones to stop her oncoming development and Brad doesn't agree. Can you blame him? Shilo is only 10, she needs to grow and develop, naturally. then, later on, she herself can decide what she wants to do.
So now we have two very rich people who have been together for over ten years and the relationship is routine. The kids are a constant stress because the parents can't agree on how to parent---even more than normal issues that parents disagree on because she is at one end of the scale and he seems more balanced (I don't think he is at the other, but more in the middle).
Also, in Hwood, you're around new, exciting beautiful people (as they once were to each other) and it's tempting. There is lots of spare time to indulge . . . and, if they had an open marriage there is bound to be jealousy.
She claims she is "protecting the children" in fact she is not. She is harming them greatly. You cannot use your kids to get to your spouse. Also, she wants to take them to war torn countries --- that's crazy. Unsafe. No wonder he's upset. Those kids need stability and they will suffer without it.
That's my take, anyway. But the way she is acting now is deplorable. He has not said one bad word against her, and deserves to see his kids---and they need to see their dad. I do believe she has an axe to grind and there is more to it . . . (jealousy on her part, perhaps---??? Revenge?)