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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Parents of underage victim in Kate Hunt's case defend actions [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The one about "well, if you don't want to see me or can't see me, I'll just move on. I've turned down lots of woman because I wanted to be with you..." quote?
I can't download due to being on dialup. But boy does that quote sound familiar to me. It's the classic line of the manipulative guy that doesn't want to get married and his girlfriend does.
So she starts out by saying things aren't going anywhere, so maybe we should end it. And then the guy says the above line, immediately evoking the combined emotional response of isolation, loneliness, jealousy in his girlfriend who *doesn't* have a line of guys lined up.
So then maybe she decides to call his bluff and break up, in which case he calls me and dates me for a couple weeks until she comes around, he dumps me and they get back together.
Or maybe she decides to try reminiscing to remind him how special she is to him, and goes back to their first time together (which from what I've read is how this conversation was directed). And he plays along and gives her an easy way out of the ultimatum she almost stumbled into. And they set up another date.
With most of the call redacted, we don't know where it went other than them discussing their first and last sexual encounters. It seems entirely possible (likely to these jaded, backup date eyes) that the last scenario is the case. In which case, Kate is going to be seen as a worst case older partner maintaining power over younger, more naive partner via manipulation.
Certainly her parents have been using every manipulation they can think of, including accusing the victim's parents of conspiring with police to trap their daughter. Well, if their daughter had said, "You know, your parents are right. It's probably best if we don't see each other any more. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you or get you in trouble with your parents," then the call would have ended right there and the police wouldn't have their evidence.