[LMB] Ekaterin: was Elli

[Anita]

On Dec 18, 2007 4:15 AM, Thad Coons <tocoons at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ekaterin cursed him for years for setting an impossible example:
>  Scattered
> through the text are mentions that Tien had threatened to commit suicide
> at
> least three times before his and Ekaterin's final confrontation,


Threatening to commit suicide from such a personality can be both an attempt
to control the other person and a cry for help. During one of my worse
fights with my emotionally abusive mother she threatened suicide because "I
thought she was a horrible mother".

Anita