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Let me ask the people who side with Miranda over Daniel these questions:


If a loving wife and mother found out that her callous husband wanted to divorce her on their son's birthday.
Don't you think that you would have sided with her?
And if a joyless workoholic husband drooled over another woman and destroyed his son's birthday party.
Don't you think that you would have lambasted him?

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It's funny, I never even considered the fact that she asked for a divorce on their kid's birthday. Having said that, I always found Miranda to be miserable. The worst we saw him do was quit his job to go to his kid's birthday.

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But I don't get why Miranda didn't talk to Daniel about it if she was so miserable.
Oh yeah, she decided to not talk to him because she looked down on him and wanted to exchange him for a "better" man.

Daniel decided to quit that job because he didn't think that a cartoon should teach kids to smoke.
That is really admirable to me.

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The fact that she found a man so soon after is telling about her character.

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Really, she was obviously drooling over him the same day that she demanded a divorce from Daniel.
So it's clear that she only took the birthday party as an excuse to be able to get another man into her panties.

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>she looked down on him and wanted to exchange him for a "better" man.

This is very true writing, including having a man lined up

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If a loving wife and mother found out that her callous husband wanted to divorce her on their son's birthday.
Don't you think that you would have sided with her?


The timing is immaterial.

And if a joyless workoholic husband drooled over another woman and destroyed his son's birthday party.
Don't you think that you would have lambasted him?


Not sure what your question means, but let's take gender out of this completely. Both parent A and parent B love their kids. Both parent A and parent B are not abusive to each other. So far so good.

Parent A is not only the primary breadwinner working long hours to maintain the beautiful home they all live in, but also does most of the housework and other domestic duties. Parent B is chronically unemployed *and* increases the daily burden on parent A. Parent B is also not a disciplinarian and makes Parent A become the "heavy".

Conclusion: going with parent A.



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She clearly did not care about her children's feelings or spend time with them except for parading them in public with her new boyfriend.
She was only interested in her fabulous career and rules and punishments and keeping up a fancy façade and ruining everybody's fun.
And yeah, getting a new man into her panties, because really, only her emotional needs and her right to have a good time mattered to her.
She was very selfish and petty and used the kids to hurt her ex-husband out of spite just because she knew that he was the better parent.
There is really not one single positive thing, that I can say about this horrible woman whom you defend against all logic.
And I know that if I had been one of two older kids, I would have done everything to ruin her perfect life until she begged Daniel to take me.
Seriously, all of the kids were too well-behaved in this twisted situation to make it realistic to me.
And we both do know that gender has everything to do with this.
Do you think that a woman would have had to deal with social services just because she was unemployed when her husband divorced her?
Or that a man would have gotten the house or the full custody of the children in this situation?

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Actually, the kid was going to feel bad nevertheless, because it was his birthday that was the last straw. The day is irrelevant at that point.

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But it proved that Miranda didn't care about the kids at all, they were nothing but showpieces to her.

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That party shows that they're both a**holes.

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