John should have stuck with Cynthia his first wife but she was way too normal and classy for him. John went off the deep end and was attracted to another fellow nut job — c’est la vie.
Yeah, they all dumped their first wives and first girlfriends. Success too young breeds weird behavior. John was my neighbor for several years - I used to follow him around Bloomingdales. Poor guy; he never got left alone.
I read in an biography of John (how accurate?) that he had severe addiction problems. We know he came from a truly dysfunctional family, and that always give problems of some type of or another - small ones if the person has good people and makes an effort to overcome and attaches themselves to good influences, but they can be monstrous things that mere money will never atone for.
I heard that later on in life John started to find some normalcy, but he made such pain for his first son through Cynthia. We all know the song “Hey Jude” was written by Paul for him - Paul came from a family of relative normalcy and that came out in HIS life. It had to pain Paul to watch John tear his family up with that nutty Yoko. Everyone talks about the effect of Yoko on “The Beatles”, but I’m guessing that Paul, being a normal “family guy” for all his faults, was probably pretty ticked off at John for what he did to Julian.