Brigette macron hits Emmanuel

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has anyone seen this on the news?! What do we all think, it’s all a bit bizarre

Complete misrepresentation of what I posted and I find that abusive. I did not speculative but posted it was widely off the mark.

ETA. If the devastating bombshell was I'm going to annihilate you - again widely off the mark - would that be enough to push your hands into another person's face? She's hardly Mike Tyson.

@YourAmplePlumPoster I think you need to read a bit about abuse victims. There’s so much more to it than money.

I feel so mortified for Macron. Just as his visit to Vietnam starts. He handled it well, did not retaliate and got on with it. IN PUBLIC anyway.

How could anyone do this in full public view just as the doors were opening and the world's press was waiting for them to appear.

It's a toss up now as to whether he will stay with her either because he is trauma bonded or to minimise impact on his Presidency, or he will leave and separate.

I'm guessing he will not split up. But she might.... and sell books and make videos and films and be even more famous. She might even to a Ted Talk about the pluses and minuses of dating a child, and marrying him.

I'm disgusted that she did this. She KNEW where she was and how humiliating it would be for her husband. She didn't care.

How awful to have to do a presidential visit to Vietnam as a couple after that.

Yes to this. Which is why other stories on different dating scenarios aren’t relevant.

This is more about possible grooming and control.

@5128gap it really isn’t inappropriate. The reasons victims stay with abusers are complex and varied. Yes of course finances come into it, but there’s so much more to it. I think you should do a bit of reading around the subject.

I never understood in the first place how it was ever considered OK for her to have a relationship as a 39 year old teacher with a 15 year old pupil

Apart from the predator herself I'm not sure many did consider it okay, @Greenartywitch, but for whatever reason nobody who might have been in a position to stop her ever did so

She’s 72, and she is trying to pass for ?62? Thé physical strain must be immense, the constant dieting to retain that ‘slender’ figure, the facelifts, balancing on high levels when the feet just can’t take the strain anymore….grim. I’m not surprised that she is losing control, over herself and possibly her husband.

I’m a year older, and I couldn’t begin to contemplate all that work. I expect she will be off for a ‘rest cure’ , Charlize will doubtless be back to tell us how normal it all is and how the spas are so lovely, your physicaian can prescribe them on your health insurance.

The comments about Madame Macron's "spindley legs." Wow. Misogyny on steroids. I thought i was reading The Mail for a minute.

@YourAmplePlumPoster There is a world of difference between age 15 and age 19. I’m not sure what relevance your student flings have to be honest! We’re talking about a teacher who groomed a child 25 years younger than her, and has recently smacked him in the face. If you want to talk about the affairs you had in your student days, you should start your own thread.

My mum was off on holidays across the world at 72. She became elderly in her nineties.

Exactly
He is hardly going say she hit him in the face because she is abusive.
I read some of this thread and thought maybe people were over reacting so I watched the incident and it was awful, just like their entire relationship

Tbf, the main cheerleader of the Madame 'Bernard' consp theory is Candace Owens a US right(ish) wing commentator, who has a You Tube channel.

I think a pp referenced this already.

No idea when she left her husband but if you really believe M Macron about this I've got a bridge for sale. IMO, the fact his parents sent him away to try to end their relationship is probably why she got away with it. When he met her again, he was older and not a pupil of hers.

ETA by "met" I meant "came back". It's all a bit...undefined.

When I suffered abuse a long time ago I remember feeling shame, embarrassment and humiliation. How could this be happening to me? Imagine being a world statesman and having this happen in the way it did. I feel very sorry for him. I hope he just divorces her now. She pushed him in the face and you can see his shock before he turns and puts a smile on for the cameras.

Yes this is the vulnerable side to it all. I felt for him watching that.

@Allthegoodnamesarechosen so tiredness, dieting, cosmetic surgery and high heels are now a defence for physical violence?

Look at his clenched fist afterwards.

The comment about mum rubbing off marmite before he goes into school - she was his teacher when they met at 15. She was in her late thirties.

I'm also in my 60s , and I remember it well. But you forget that it was a different era, and the mind set of the time was completely different. We'd had years of people banging on about sexual freedom, female sexual freedom, gay sexual freedom, and teenage sexual freedom.And while it caused a stir, it was considered alright. My question about Bill and Mandy is, what on earth did they talk about? And if I remember correctly, there was a a march to be able to have sexual relations with children from the age of nine. Infantile sexual freedom!

Just watching "Honour" on Netflix.

Typical.

Oh come off it!

I had a friend who was physically abused by her husband
She was attractive, confident, successful and came from a wealthy family.
There was absolutely no practical reason AT ALL why she couldn't leave him and yet she didn't, not for a long time.
They had been together since she was 15 and she just didn't consider that there was an alternative even wheen people told her there was

Hasn't it come out that those who where pushing for underage sex were actually associated with PIE?

I recall people in the showbiz world making lots of excuses when it came out that Mandy Smith was only 13 when she came in contact with Wyman.