@grumpytoddler1
Just checking in. Has anyone watched the documentary on Netflix about Shannan Watts? It's really heartbreaking, but I also think it's an interesting portrayal of what it's like to be in an MLM. She was deep into an MLM called Thrive before she died and posted lots and lots of Facebook live videos talking about her life. In real life she was miserable and her husband was having an affair (I suspect he must have been abusive too - lovely men with no history of violence don't just wake up one day and murder their wife and children), but she was required to be endlessly positive for the purposes of recruiting for the mlm. You'd have thought from her Facebook profile that she had the perfect life. She also filmed everything for social media. It was really fascinating to see the difference between real life and the mlm facade.
I watched a youtube video last year which featured the bodycam footage of the police officer who was initially called to the home after a friend of Shannanne called them, concerned that she wasn't home the morning after attending a weekend "conference". Shannanne was pregnant and had arranged to visit the doctor that morning with her friend.
There was no mention of Thrive or MLM on the footage but the words used to describe Shannanne's job "business owner" for example set all my spidey senses going.
I had no idea of the background to the story while I watched it unfold but it was extremely fascinating to watch her husband's behaviour after he arrived home to let the officer into the house to look for Shannanne. I realised that there was something badly wrong with his responses during the house search but didn't know why.
I did not realise that he had, earlier that morning, murdered his wife and children and taken bodies out of the home and buried them, then gone to work as normal.
Chris and Shannanne seemed on the surface to be a extremely happy, fulfilled and successful couple. They had a beautiful home and luxury cars and all the trappings of success plus two adorable little girls. I have since watched the documentary where I learned about the MLM she was involved with and watched all the public posts projecting a happy, financially secure family. It was anything but, of course 
as they had growing serious financial problems.
We know too well how spouses of MLM bots suffer in silence when their partners get absorbed into the MLM bubble of toxic positivity at all costs. This is a tragic example of the ultimate cost, I believe. I wonder if the combination of the financial implications of another pregnancy plus Shannanne attending yet another "business conference" led to a confrontation when she returned. Its so heartbreaking to think of their young daughters...