Dr. Bethany Marshall

It seemed very manufactured, dramatic, and yes, histrionic, because histrionics is really emotions that appear deep in nature, but they're not deep at all.

They're just designed to get attention.

And Nancy, can you imagine if he had succeeded?

in killing his wife, and he was left to parent those two sons and he treated the two and four year old like he treated the 19 year old he calls his own son says I'm now going to kill myself.

He's covered in blood.

This means he's using he's manipulating and exploiting his 19 year old for his own purposes.

He's trying to get empathy from his own son.

This is just one more tell in a larger situation of somebody who's extremely self-possessed, just only thinks about himself.

Selfish.

Thank you.

Someone who is extremely self-absorbed and really doesn't care about his 19-year-old son nor anybody else.

Well, that's what's being reported, is that she's trying to earn back his trust.

That doesn't fit any pattern I see as a couples therapist, that the wife is trying to earn back the trust.

Not somebody who's a nuclear engineer, successful, beautiful, big life,

surrounded by family and friends.

This doesn't sound right.

What's more likely in the treatment is that she brought him in because she could no longer bear all the accusations and that their home life was spinning out of control.

And if he was trying to discredit her to her family and friends,

He was probably fighting in front of the two and four year olds.

I would imagine that there were concerns in her mind as a mother about what was happening in that household.