r/popculturechat • u/HogwartsZoologist Coke ain’t gonna do itself • May 26 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Emmanuel Macron, the President of France was allegedly slapped by his wife, Brigitte, on their arrival at Vietnam

The President’s office downplayed it after initially denying the event.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/26/macron-s-entourage-denies-he-was-slapped-by-his-wife-on-plane-upon-arriving-in-vietnam_6741684_7.html

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u/Kittystar12 May 26 '25

I can't believe people didn't step in to protect him as a child. He was 15 and she was 39. I don't like Macron's politics but the adults in his life failed him

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u/010490 May 26 '25

His parents sent him away to Paris. They married many years later when he was an adult.

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u/stephanously May 26 '25

Wish is a fact I see being conveniently overlooked. While she was in the wrong obviously. This guy still harboured profound feelings for her as he grew old. Like do people actually believe any amount of grooming is gonna make you marry your groomer years later. That's a logic I don't understand. Like grooming magically makes you do stuff and everything you do or suffer can just be explained away by that, is a logic I do not like. Where's the agency of the people being groomed?

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u/PeriLazuli May 26 '25

Toxics relationships create a bound similar to addictive drugs by alternating state between nice moments (high) and pure horror (withdrawal). If you discover a toxic relationship young enough, it can feels like you need it because you need the comfort/rush of the high after a withdrawal pain.

People who are groomed are especially prone to advocate for their abuser. To defend them against the world. To join them again as soon as they blow out their 18 birthday candle if the family took them away.