Comments on: How Our Favorite Alpha Mom Screwed Up and Why I Don’t Blame Jon Gosselin

By: chaz

chaz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:28:29 +0000

I have never watched a full episode of this show.

The way Kate treated Jon was awful. I couldn’t imagine him really staying with her. She was just horrific.

But I have to admit, my wife is bad to me … just as bad, maybe worse, and though we are not necessarily in love any more we have stayed together. I did it for the kids. I have no idea why she did.

By: Karri

Karri — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:14:47 +0000

@Andrea The fact that they would not acknowledge each other AT ALL stood out to me as well. Marriage is hard and while Jon obviously messed up, Kate has to own her part of this as well. (i.e. not just say she was “hard on Jon” but actually address this WITH Jon) Once they get past their anger, if they let themselves, the floodgates will open and I only hope it won’t be too late to save their marriage by that point.

@Scott You make a good point and indeed these reality shows are not 100% “real” all of the time, are they? Deep down, though, I suspect a lot of us sincerely want to see them reconcile. But it will take courage, growth and real change in both of them. It’s tough stuff but I worry Kate is too married to her own convictions to make room for forgiveness and real communication.

@tawnya He he. I still barely know what ‘DVR’ is! Sheesh.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:46:46 +0000

I have a funny feeling this might all be a ploy to keep interest in the show. With all the craziness surrounding the “octo-mom”. The aspect of eight kids has lost it’s edge. So to ad a new aspect of the show bring in the marital problems. This episode was probably the most watched of all the seasons. Everyone has seen this come to light on tv and in magazines and wanted to see what the two of them had to say to each other. Just a theory, but this is a television show after all is said and done. We see what they want us to see.

By: Andrea Schumann

Andrea Schumann — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:56:08 +0000

Very astute observations. It was extremely striking how neither one of them ever said “I’m there for Jon/Kate”. And how both of them always said “I’m there for MY kids” – not OUR kids. I just kept thinking how terribly sad. It didn’t seem that either one even wanted to make an attempt at saving their marriage – you could see it in the body language. I thought one of them might say, “Our marriage is worth more than this TV show.”

By: Tawnya Sutherland

Tawnya Sutherland — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:52:43 +0000

Oh man, I missed this finale! I honestly only watch the reruns of this show and don’t even PVR them so that tells you in a nutshell how much I enjoy that reality show

Thank gawd for PVR…what a fantastic invention for anyone working from home! I can record and watch whatever I want, whenever I want with no commercials too!

I’ll have to catch this rerun end of the summer when it airs again