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In reply to the discussion: Marriage tips from a rapist, on ABC [View all]Warpy
(111,222 posts)A friend liked younger guys, which in her mid 20s, met 18-19-20. She met a guy on a political campaign and they started dating. Two months down the line, she finally found out why their dates were infrequent and he couldn't stay past 11 PM--he was living with his parents because he was fourteen!.
She dropped him like a hot rock but he came to her going away party when she moved away. I have rarely met such a smooth character, over 6 feet tall and nobody thought to card him.
I've long thought this was a similar case, only Letourneau was at a vulnerable point in her life and got swept along by hormones.
Life is a lot messier than "he was just a little kid" and "she was just a rapist." The fact that the obsession was mutual and they married as soon as she got out of prison is proof.
I hope they can manage to stay out of the media and make sense of their lives. I hope their kids are unscarred by the media circus. I hope light switch mentalities can let this go, they're both grown up now and have been for a long time.
Then again, I've never been one to pick at old scabs to keep an old wound bloody.