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Submitted by TwoOfUs on Thu, 03/02/2017 - 8:16am

A little off topic...but the mist recent episode of Mindy Project features a BM who stays with Mindy's boyfriend while looking for a home in the area...and it becomes clear that BM is crazy and trying to get back together...

Then, I watched Daddy's Home because I was home alone and bored. Holy crap. It's a SD and BD rather than a SM and BM...but it's all there. Bio-dad coming back after years of abandonment and thinking he's the center if attention, loyalty binds, competitiveness. The film gets so much right! Of course, in the end it kind of comes back to the stepparent having to suck it up & "be the better person" despite being mistreated. Oh, and Bio-dad remarries and buys a house across the street and they all learn to co-parent and bio-dad has a stepdaughter and all the kids get along just like siblings, too...so it ends as a totally ridiculous fantasy.

But the first 2/3 of the film! Anyone else seen it or Mindy Project? Is it possible that our plight is making it into the popular imagination?

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Submitted by sunshinex on Thu, 03/02/2017 - 8:19am

I haven't seen the recent episode of the Mindy Project yet but I'm excited to now! lol

I watched Daddy's Home with my husband in theatres and I think he was surprised to see how ridiculous loyalty binds can be. It opened his eyes up to the difficulty of parenting and loving someone's kids when the kid will always choose the bio parent (in most cases) in the end anyways. He even laughed about the ending and said how silly and unrealistic it seemed.

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Submitted by sunshinex on Thu, 03/02/2017 - 8:22am

Also on this topic... Bates motel. If anyone watches that, it gets to a point where the mother is keeping her new husband a secret from her son because he'll be upset. She's making decisions that impact her marriage without talking to her husband because "it's in the best interest of her son" and "how dare her husband think he knows best for her and her son"

My husband was quick to point out how friggin insane it was and how fast a marriage like that would dissolve in real life. He seems to understand that kids don't come first once you're married, which is nice Smile lol

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Submitted by TwoOfUs on Thu, 03/02/2017 - 8:36am

Hmmm. I'll have to check that out.

I think most movies are afraid to show step parents as long-suffering and skids as scheming little ingrates, so I definitely appreciated that about Daddy's Home, despite the ridiculous ending Smile