Boy, do I feel badly for Penny's son, Liam. He is truly the blameless victim in that cluster *beep*, while his mother AND father remain enmeshed in a toxic relationship of manipulation, enabling, and denial.
The update episode may have pissed me off more than the original. Penny had every opportunity given to her and squandered it while thinking she was doing significantly better. She remained bed-ridden, incessantly couponing, under the guise of saving money, but it's mostly an excuse to eat whatever. She thinks occasionally getting out of her bed to sit in a wheelchair means she's living a normal life, particularly when she watched a little bit of Liam's trick or treating. The show said she gets out, what? Once every month or two months!
I just do not see how anyone can continue to be so destructive when their young child should be enough to stop the madness. You have a young child you're hurting terribly, Penny. That's when I have zero sympathy--to waste the help and continue to hurt one's own child... smh. If Penny never "gets it," Liam will very likely lose his "mother" before junior high school.
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novastar_6
8 years ago
If she dies that will be the best thing that ever happened to Liam, he will finally have a life.
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Katiedidd
8 years ago
You know, I was thinking just that but didn't say it. If she never gets better, he'd be better off with her gone. He'll be wiping her ass, tendting to her every whim when he gets a little older. When I said Penny gets out once every month or two, I meant OUT OF BED, not out of the house. Liam doesn't need to see this for the rest of his upbringing, and one way or another, it needs to end.
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