The article mentions the bar, her friends at the bar, her conversations at the bar, her love of craft beer, presumably at the bar and at home....could be this woman had a DRINKING PROBLEM. Alcoholics can be very cruel to their children. This really needs to be investigated.
Why should we “presume” anything about her “being in bars a lot”?
All summer long I’m in bars a nearly unbearable amount of time yet I don’t drink.
Bikers like to talk to each other and if we congregate in sizable numbers at the local McDonalds, people get really nervous, ergo, we gravitate to bars.
Should we “presume” she was a raging drunken gun nut prepper who abused her son?
[did I miss any liberal talking points?]
I don't know if this woman had a drinking problem, but I am positive she had issues that were skillfully kept hidden. She knew how to put up a good front, but she wasn't normal.
As the daughter of someone with borderline personality disorder, I remember all too well my mother's sudden rages and vicious remarks. She would lose herself and even get violent. Yet she always put on a kind and cheerful face to the world. No one could believe otherwise -- except my father's friends, many of whom were doctors and therapists. They suspected something was wrong. Unfortunately it wasn't till after her death that the truth about her was acknowledged.
Most likely this woman dominated her son, used him as pal and confidante, or pushed him too hard. He had finally reached his breaking point.
People complain about absent fathers, but that's only one half of the equation. What about neurotic mothers?
Are you serious? Give any consideration to the apparently absent father?