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Is Harry just going through a bad case of Limerence?

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Pearmain · 09/12/2022 17:40

It seems to fit the description and would explain how it seems like he’s totally taken leave of his senses.

It must be so hard for the Royals but I wonder if they can see this which is why they’ve not cut him off, they know they’ll need to be there to help him pick up the pieces when he snaps out of it.

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username8888 · 09/12/2022 19:08

All the talking about his mental health over recent years and needing therapy, have really resonated here. Lets hope his move from the UK improves his MH... but at the moment he sounds like he has many unresolved issues.

I'm trying hard not to say he sounds like a fruit loop.

stillvicarinatutu · 09/12/2022 19:09

Why can't they just be a happily married , loving couple with a young family like millions of others who found the one person they love , respect, work as a team with and want to be with ?

Why are they singled out for the psychoanalysis of people who only know them through the goldfish bowl?

I dont blame them for wanting a right of reply to all the abuse . And they look happy . I'm glad for them .

username8888 · 09/12/2022 19:11

stillvicarinatutu · 09/12/2022 19:09

Why can't they just be a happily married , loving couple with a young family like millions of others who found the one person they love , respect, work as a team with and want to be with ?

Why are they singled out for the psychoanalysis of people who only know them through the goldfish bowl?

I dont blame them for wanting a right of reply to all the abuse . And they look happy . I'm glad for them .

They look happy in this sanitised and soft lens focussed piece of candyfloss. Of course they do, its netting them £millions. In real life however Harry looks increasingly uncomfortable and haunted.

BedTaker · 09/12/2022 19:11

I wonder why the people who insist that the Middletons are merely a solidly middle class family don't seem to think that Kate Middleton's just in it for the money?

You have a short memory, everyone's been there and done that.

Do you not remember the stories of how Kate had a poster of William on her wall growing up, how she went to St Andrews with the sole intention of bagging herself the Prince, how her parents carefully orchestrated everything so that one day they would be grandparents of the heir to the throne?

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Pearmain · 09/12/2022 19:12

@TheRealHousewife i can’t take the credit I’m afraid, I first read about it on mumsnet the other day!

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BedTaker · 09/12/2022 19:13

Of course it's not Limerence, they have been married for 4 and a half year ffs!

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 09/12/2022 19:17

Why are they singled out for the psychoanalysis of people who only know them through the goldfish bowl?

I don't think they are singled out, are they? pretty much everyone in the public eye suffers from this. And how else do people know them or anyone else except through the media?

Gynaesaur · 09/12/2022 19:24

@MNHQ I've read the Talk Guidelines and I'm still not sure why my post was deleted. Frankly, if that constitutes a personal attack, then you have a job and a half ahead of you combing through every other thread on this site.

DeeCeeCherry · 09/12/2022 19:25

Nonsense. You dont know Harry, you've never met him, you know nothing about his life, you dont know his inner circle. You are beyond hope if you can't see how absolutely ridiculous your silly armchair psychology is.

Limerence is what you and all others obsessing over another woman's husband and hating her for being his wife, are pitifully suffering from. You should be embarassed as a grown woman but given you and your chattering ilk seem to deludedly believe you are important, you probably aren't.

I can't imagine you speak like this in real life for fear of (rightfully) being laughed at so I guess the MN coven is giving you life.

BellePeppa · 09/12/2022 19:27

There is something seriously yuck (I won’t say ick) though about a man wanting his wife to be so like his mum that he declares to anyone who will listen how she is just like Diana. It’s disturbing and must be a huge turn off physically for both or either of them. I couldn’t stay attracted to a man like that no matter his status or wealth.

Figgypuddingpiggyfudding · 09/12/2022 19:29

Harry is cleary messed up due to his remarkably unusual life and the death of his mother at such a difficult age.

I think he really loves Meghan and they do seem happy together. Agree that she probably wouldn't have looked twice at him if he wasn't who he is.

I think their situation with the RF is much more complicated than we know and I can imagine the resentment of Meghan being dragged through the press while Andrew was being protected is probably a big part in why they did what they did.

However, I think if Meghan was honestly just with Harry because she loved him and wanted their lives to be private (as they claimed to want) then she would work quietly with him behind the scenes to resolve his demons and build their life together. I would be advising against the constant airing of laundry and trying to be happy, raise a family and use their position to do a lot of good. Not make a Netflix show about their life.

I feel sorry for Harry.

HelloBunny · 09/12/2022 19:31

When they divorce, Meghan will move on to a billionaire. She has a game-plan.

ComfortablyDazed · 09/12/2022 19:33

BonnesVacances · 09/12/2022 18:38

I have a theory that some posters sit and look at their deadbeat OH and feel hard done by when they look at how H&M are with each other. So being just plain nasty about other people makes them feel better about their choices.

This theory has as much basis as people's theory about H&M. But that's my opinion and apparently anyone who feels hard done by inaccurate assumptions shared on social media has to put up and shut up.

No doubt this will be reported and deleted even though shit about MM stands because hate sells because some sad old women want to be able to be nasty on forums to random strangers they don't know, but they don't seem to be able to take it themselves.

But I'll still think they must be pretty miserable to be so negative and want to pull people down. And I see you, even if you don't see yourselves.

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Says some ‘sad old woman’ (gosh 😬) being nasty on forums to random strangers they don't know.

You couldn’t make it up.

Harry and Meghan don’t seem to bring out the best in anyone..

stillvicarinatutu · 09/12/2022 19:35

What makes me laugh is this :

Charles - divorced/remarried the right woman
Anne - divorced/ remarried
Andrew- divorced/ dubious history and friends

Harry - married / apparently happy .

And the world chooses to dissect HIS marriage ! Accuse his wife of gold digging and him of not knowing his own mind .

He appears to be one the few people who have come out of that family in tact .

torquewench · 09/12/2022 19:35

They both seem happy enough together.

I did think the curtsey thing was very odd as well as disrespectful though. Was she high or stoned? Something there just seemed off to me.

stuntbubbles · 09/12/2022 19:37

Maybe they love each other, he’s happy to have found a route out of the dysfunction of the Windsors, and they’re quite content making a living from books and silly TV and jetting around doing appearances, and in-between living in a big house with lots of money. 🤷‍♀️

HelloBunny · 09/12/2022 19:42

I don’t think that Meghan will be content with just that. And the RF is not her first rodeo with racism. As a bi-racial actress, she knew she wouldn’t hit the Bigtime. Her father worked in showbiz, so she knows how it works.

Bagging Harry is only the beginning for her. That’s why she’s not afraid to mix with the likes of Oprah. And live in a neighborhood that these people are in. She said that they couldn’t afford the house. But she still made it happen!

Abra1t · 09/12/2022 19:43

stillvicarinatutu · 09/12/2022 19:09

Why can't they just be a happily married , loving couple with a young family like millions of others who found the one person they love , respect, work as a team with and want to be with ?

Why are they singled out for the psychoanalysis of people who only know them through the goldfish bowl?

I dont blame them for wanting a right of reply to all the abuse . And they look happy . I'm glad for them .

Perhaps they are subjected to psychoanalysis because they keep releasing books and tv series about themselves, their emotions, their relationships?

MarshaMelrose · 09/12/2022 19:52

stillvicarinatutu · 09/12/2022 19:35

What makes me laugh is this :

Charles - divorced/remarried the right woman
Anne - divorced/ remarried
Andrew- divorced/ dubious history and friends

Harry - married / apparently happy .

And the world chooses to dissect HIS marriage ! Accuse his wife of gold digging and him of not knowing his own mind .

He appears to be one the few people who have come out of that family in tact .

The others dont go on tv talking about it. Have you ever thought that if he'd just moved to LA and shut up, no one would be talking about him. There'd be nothing to say. He must want people to talk or he wouldn't keep doing interviews. We're doing him a favour really.

MarshaMelrose · 09/12/2022 19:54

He appears to be one the few people who have come out of that family in tact .

Early days. 😉

ReadtheReviews · 09/12/2022 19:57

Thanks mn for teaching me a new word! Limerance. Hmmm. Now to see if it applies to any of my intense, disasterous former relationships...

Wonnle · 09/12/2022 20:22

Georgeskitchen · 09/12/2022 18:03

What she sees in him is $$$$$, without him and his (former) family, she is just another 2 bit actress scratching for a living

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I think you are over estimating her acting abilities there !

Branleuse · 09/12/2022 20:25

😄😄

radrado · 09/12/2022 20:31

Not normally a fan of Sarah Vine or the Mail but I think she’s bang on here

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11517865/SARAH-VINE-Palace-needs-start-taking-Harry-Meghan-problem-seriously-indeed.html

saltofcelery · 09/12/2022 20:43

@SantaCarlaCalifornia because they (in particular Meghan) have been torn to shreds by the British media, which has fed into threads like this. I applaud her for telling her side of the story and not sitting back and letting it go. Some horrible, horrible things have been said about her.

People are giving examples of her "bad behaviour" that are all rumours, nothing substantiated. If she was really so horrible, do you think he would sit there doting on her? Why is it so hard to believe he is in love with her and not under a spell / having a mental health crisis?

It just proves the power of the tabloid newspapers.

We don't know her and have never seen a negative side to her (you cannot disagree with this, she's done nothing wrong) yet so many are against her. I think it's disgusting and many, many people should be ashamed of themselves.