Posted by Samantha Peterson on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Confetti-Check-A-OK-tp1505450p1505481.html



>Sure, I am biased as hell, but I think Straker met her, fell in love with
love, and she was available and mistakenly thought everything would work
out.
She wasn't right for him, and he wasn't right for her.

Amelia

Amelia....YOU? BIASED?! LOL Maybe just a little. But I think the real
problem with Mary is that she is a child of her generation...she got married
and expected that "to build a life together" meant "build my world around my
husband". She gave up her identity to become a house frau and then got p-d
off when Ed turned out not to be that kind of 9-5 guy that would come home
at a certain hour every night and spend time with her. I wonder if she would
have kept working, even part-time if she would have had a little more
"sympathy" for Ed's workaholic nature.

I read in one of the "Archives" blurbs that Ed met her and 2 months later
married her. She worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Defense or some
such (where she also met her second husband...oddly enough). Hmmm.



Amy:

>lol I would have made it work...partially because I am biased. Also I
believe
in trust...until you know definitely that you can't for whatever reason.
Mary
should have trusted Ed and know that whatever he did was for the good of
them
both.


I think Mary had a right to "question" his loyalty to the
marraige...especially after the pictures. But she was really irrational not
to even let him tell his side of it. We never see her mother (not even at
the wedding if I recall) which makes it seem like the mettle old battle axe
didn't approve of the marraige in the first place. LOL

Samantha