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“I am so grateful for the details and depth you offer in contrast to 20/20’s version, which must have had some strict parameters per Mark Gerardot’s agreement to be interviewed. Through your podcast we learn about, among other things: Mark’s previous betrayals (that’s plural) of Jennair re: other women; his convincing Meredith NOT to file a restraining order against Jennair when she probably should have; and his claiming he had no idea about what Jennair was planning. Though he doesn’t really explain this part, we are left to supposedly accept that, even though he was paying all bills at the time, he evidently never looked at his own credit card statements listing Jennair’s purchase of a gun (5-6 weeks prior to crime), a black wig, an all-black outfit from Kohl’s, target practice classes, and months prior to that all kinds of specialty listening and GPS devices. All this from the man who was supposedly, finally going to live independently.
Now I can’t help but believe Mark Gerardot is using his master marketing skills to re-brand himself as a humble, repentant, wiser soul here to school us all on some of the most obvious, terrible things most of us would not do anyway in ending any kind of relationship, including copious lying and dishonesty right up to both women’s last day when Jennair sent him a photo of his used condom in Meredith’s trash, after his insisting even in his interviews that they hadn’t had sex for months.
Here’s what I’m grateful for:
1) the amount of extra material you obtained from Mark (even though I believe it’s at least a partly controlled good guy attempt from him and we don’t know what he has withheld). It offers a counter to his growing claims re: Jennair’s mental health status, all made post-mortem btw by him, with secondhand references to mental health specialists and lists of traits he found online.
2) You have brought especially strong and needed light to the Woman Scorned concept, I think another version at times of the “hysterical” woman, versus the cowardly, enabling husband who evidently has no responsibility to stop a wife’s bullying, demand she get help, and/or step away as his enabling is just as harmful and cruel as the wife’s behavior. I don’t recall Mark ever referring to himself as a coward, much more so as a veiled victim.
3) My greatest takeaway is that we are all responsible for our own mental health, single or in a relationship, and that is just as true for Meredith who, from Day One had none to little sympathy, not even acknowledgment, of Jennair’s predicament. Many people involved say there were no red flags, but collectively they all make it very clear there was a train wreck coming from 50 miles away, and no one would get off the tracks.
I imagine someday soon Mark will be offered a film option, and I hope by then that, like our new awareness re: narcissism, we will hold the passive enablers, who don’t act responsibly, just as responsible as the scorned spouses who finally act out.
Thanks again!”
Mermaid0340 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/03/23
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