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"So maybe the root cause is the mother and the kids?
Must be a huge mistake to do the family thing then. Don't do that."

I think the father was showing serious restraint and maturity despite his corrupt behavior. Arguing and yelling every night but yet he was still humble enough to hold family meetings and try to negotiate everyone's needs around his own.

He could've been like so many fathers who just beat their family senseless and use their children as an outlet for their anger, but he didn't. He kept all of that in until it killed him.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

by AerynFrellMe

lol. The statistics are a little inflated.

 It's always inflated when someone with a six figure salary needs donations.

That and the answers are out on display for all to see. Whatever he stands to gain others stand to gain as well.

by wilful

You are a fourteen year old who goes day to day listening to your parents fight openly about all the things they hate about each other.  Your father is bipolar; your mother, passive-aggressive/OCD.  Your father routinely calls family meetings at his worst moments with hopes his eighteen year old daughter and son can mediate the situation.  One evening, your father tears the curtains off the wall and flips the fridge before running upstairs to call a family meeting.  They argued for two hours this time...it is going to be a long night.  Your father yells for everyone to sit on the couch while pulling a gun from his waist.  He kneels and without hesitation puts the gun in his mouth and fires.  Your father falls leaving you to see his brains where the curtains used to be. Your sister jumps on your lap holding you so fucking tight you can hardly breathe.  

How would this guy best deal with this situation long-term?

Would he blame anyone? 

Is a "good life" possible for him or his sister?

What if he chose a "bad life?". What would that look like?

 I'm really trying to get into your scenarios. The problem i'm having is that. I think all of your scenario threads, are just a attempt to subliminally manipulate others into believing that these scenarios are based on you.

If that is the case then why not come out and say it. 

Unless you believe the indirect approach is safer from the possibility of ridicule. Than the direct approach would be.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass. It's just the way i'm wired.

Even if that were the case, are you so narcissistic and unimaginative that your suspicions prohibit conjecture? What if he's attempting to deduce knowledge about the guarded posters here by providing hypothetical scenarios, which allow them to open up in the analytical and impersonal way that many anti-social types prefer? What if he is discreetly amassing ammo by storing up little nuggets that he can use to undermine posters at a later date ,with another sock puppet? What if he is seeking a kindred spirit? Unlike your stunted imagination, the possibilities are limitless- and you'll only ever know what he chooses to reveal, unless you get much better at reading between the lines, Sigmund.

by Turncoat

Blame? It'd be at the father. Sure he'd be a victim of himself with passive aggression pushing him that much further, but ultimately he'd have chosen to take his own life in front of his family. That's a very rude way to go. If he wanted to die in a way people could be sympathetic towards, he'd not do it in that fashion.

If the father is bipolar and the mother's OCD, there's a chance that those may have spread to the children. The chance of a "good life" would probably be shot, risking repetition from at least one of the three kids. Instead of taking the time to mourne over the inevitable outcome, it'd become more about making sure they don't contagiously encore his display.

 Agree with this^^

You're clearly not much of a strategic thinker. It's always better to overestimate people than to underestimate them.

Who cares

Do u like to cook with Rice Krispies, killer?

I like your scenarios, Wil. They are an interesting break from the same-old, and they promote introspection.