Trump Caught Being A Major A**hole To Melania Again

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59. Given a possibly abusive situation, we don't know what's in her head.

When surviving the abuse means agreeing with whatever notion the abuser wants, one will say the sky is soup and the sea is cheese if it means keeping the asshat happy.

Dysfunctional relationships are complicated and people in them are just as prone to the sunk cost fallacy and magical thinking as anyone else.

You need not have sympathy, because if she wanted out and wanted to maintain her child's well-being, she has the financial, social and legal resources to do so. She might have to live on the UWS and might have to trim the recreational shopping, but filing for divorce will not shove her into a 2 bedroom, 1965 singlewide in southern Indiana. But given that she's seen how he treated the other exes and their children, she may be making a rational decision to wait it out and say whatever he wants to hear.