He thought his little relationship with Erin and the kids would be all fun and laughs, but the minute life happened (having to work long hours, his girlfriend coming home tired and cranky) he decided he was bored and just walked out.
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I dont think he was a jerk at all, if you noticed in the film it says something like 9 months later and in all that time Erin must have been working all day and night and never seeing him or the kids so he had enough
shareI couldn't blame him much for leaving... he deserved more attention than she was giving him... however it was also selfish of him to tell her to quit her job so that she could spend more time with him (and the kids). It was the first time she had a job that really meant something and she was good at it and she enjoyed it. And she was finally able to pay her bills.
But she shouldn't have based her treatment towards him based on what her two ex-husbands did to her.
They were both right...and needed to compromise more...communicate better.
Most women realize that to a man, all that matters is himself and his own wants and needs. Little consideration for others, especially women. Enormous egos, most of them.
shareIt is the enormous egos of males that have preserved and proliferated life on this planet for millenia. Both intelligent and the brainless.
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i didnt think he was a jerk for leaving, he wasnt a glorified babysitter...i think he was an enormous jerk for suing erin after though
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Yeah, and they make huge derogatory assumptions about whole groups of people........no, wait, that was you.
shareI think that he was a jerk for the way that he left. Erin was taking advantage (albeit unintentionally), but just up and leaving because she wasn't paying enough attention to him and he would rather be out playing with his biker friends was pretty selfish. That being said, it was very cool of him to watch the kids when Erin and Ed has to go around collecting signatures. She's lucky he loved her kids and he was a good enough guy to help her out even after he walked out on her.
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Was just talking about this with my flatmates and we agreed that yea he was a bit selfish for leaving. If this was a male working on a big case and the female was at home she would have been expected to just deal with it and if she had walked out the way George did she never would have been allowed back.
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No. If I started dating a guy and he began working long hours and I watched HIS kids all day and never saw him, I would leave, too.
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
But the difference is, he didn't ASK you to watch his kids, you OFFERED to watch them in order to get him to appreciate you and bang you. He does bang you but doesn't appreciate you and thats why you end up leaving, because you think to yourself 'I've been looking after his kids for so long and he still doesn't appreciate me enough?' well more fool you, no one asked you to volunteer, you practically made him say yes.
Ashmi any question
Ha, what? So he offered and that means what? Who wants to be with a person who never spends any time with you?
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
He just wanted to get into her pants, she didn't make him any promises. More fool him for taking that job, he agreed to be her babysitter but when she made him do it full time whilst she was working he didn't like it.
Its not like she didn't want to spend time with him, she was WORKING. On something important as well. The whole world doesn't revolve around him and what he wants.
Ashmi any question
No. I think if Erin had shown him more appreciation he would've stuck around. She took him for granted to the point where he really had no choice but to leave. If the genders had been reversed, women would have been cheering a woman for splitting.
I'll probably irk a lot of people when I say this, but what the hell: I'm a woman. I'm married. And you'd be amazed at how far "please," "thank you," and "I appreciate what you did today..." go when it comes to my husband. But it works both ways. A lot of the time, all I need is acknowledgment of things I've done for him and a thank you.
Erin was right to stick with her job. But she was wrong to think that George was ultimately going to disappoint her.
Exactly. Taking the other person in a relationship for granted is a recipe for failure, regardless of who is doing it to who. He absolutely should have tried to work it out before just leaving (not communicating is also a recipe for failure), but nobody, male or female, wants to be taken for granted.
shareDefinitely. Oh boo hoo she wasn't paying him any attention, well thats what work does to you. And we all know the ONLY reason why he wanted to look after her children in the first place was so that he could get into her pants, so I dunno why he got all upset when he was lumbered with her children AGAIN at the barbeque whilst watching his friends drive past on their motorbikes - ITS WHAT HE SINGED UP FOR!
He offered at the end of the day, PURELY for her sake. What did he think, that as soon as she started screwing him she'd give up everything and commit to him?
Hes not really a jerk for leaving, hes a jerk for not understanding. His own fault really, she didn't ask him to chase after her, she didn't ask him to look after her kids, she didn't ask him for have the hots for her. He did all that and simply expected her to put him top of her list. Typical stupid man, wants the sex, wants it all.
He didn't hate the fact she worked late and rarely saw him, he hated the fact that she was the male in the relationship.
Ashmi any question
You people are morons.
Yes, he offered to watch her kids while she worked and probably had ideas of what it may lead to. At this point who in their right mind would think this is an indefinite offer?
It leads to a relationship, that's fine. Everyone is happy for awhile.
At this point -- TIME PASSES and Erin's workload explodes. I'm sure no one would have a problem with him leaving if he was just the babysitter, right? If they weren't sleeping together? So why the issue with him leaving once the relationship takes a turn for the worse to where he's back to being the babysitter with some benefits?
In the leaving scene he says "I bought these for you and thought the next time Erin does something nice or says something nice I'll give them to her. Know how long ago that was? Six months ago." Who in their right mind would stay in a NEW relationship where your partner quickly starts ignoring you and taking you for granted? The reason doesn't matter be it work or anything else... if you're being taken for granted less than a year into a relationship run away as fast as you can.
I just watched this again yesterday and I can't see how anyone could defend Erin in that encounter. When men pretty much abandon their kids they’re looked down upon and considered absentee fathers, yet when Erin does the same thing she somehow gets a pass and George, who BTW isn’t her husband, is considered selfish. Everyone does realize that George and Erin aren’t married, right?
She clearly took advantage of him and used the opportunity to let someone else raise her kids for a while.
I found George very likable, a well-suited resolve to Erin's desperate hyper-emotional character. He and his beloved Harley (albeit loud) represented individual freedom while Erin was trapped by her single mother responsibilities, but they potentially complemented each other. I admire him for sticking it out with the kids to a point while watching other bikers ride off free of such obligations. Maybe the $2 million payout was worth the wait ;-)
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