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 Absolutely. She's certainly not as smart as Einstein like she believes she is but apparently she has a fairly high IQ. The fact that she dropped out of high school says something. Apparently not including the semester before she dropped out, she was getting really good grades too. Obviously something in her environment triggered her need to start messing up her life. It's also strange that her parents never attempted to intervene so she wouldn't drop out. It seems they didn't even make an attempt. Why? How could her parents just give up and be okay with her moving out, moving in with some guy and not try to make things right? I don't care if age 18 made her an adult. They couldn't legally control the situation but they were still her parents. They could have tried to work things out before she went down a wrong path. |
I agree with you that it's strange how uninterested her parents were. My parents would have never let me drop out of high school no matter if I had 18 or not. They would have tried everything possible to make me graduate. It seems that she was not super close with her parents as she lived with her grandparents.
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Completely agree. Religion and his Grandmother's influence "saved him" essentially.
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Any idea when how old was he when he turned into religion?
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According to Lisa, he did want to talk about sex a lot and he was always attempting to cross some lines. He did this with other women too and there's proof via text and emails. The Hughes were aware of this side of Travis and they didn't like it. He enjoyed women falling for him but he had zero intention of following through with any sort of serious commitment. He also cheated on Lisa not once but twice (well more than twice but I mean twice when they became official) with Jodi. So he certainly was not squeaky clean and I'm not sure it was just Jodi's influence because he tested boundaries with other women as well. However, Jodi brought out this part of Travis for sure. She was like his fantasy in real life. His fantasy thoughts he could play out with her and he knew he couldn't go there with anyone else truly even if he pushed buttons trying to see how far he could go with other women as well.
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I kind of blame a bit religion for this though. When you are taught that sex is this bad thing and you are told times and times that you should avoid it and then you try it, you could get addicted to it. It's like the forbidden thing that everyone wants to try. There are numerous stories about catholic school girls that waited to graduate and turn to sex so much that it was not healthy. I kind of feel the same happened with Travis and honestly it happens with a lot of others. Nowadays celibacy is not an easy thing in our society.
Also most probably this celibacy thing was in conflict with his Fire energy. Do not get me wrong. I do believe that he was sexual. I do believe that he enjoyed sex and he kind of wanted it. However I also believe that the more he suppressed it because of religion, the worse his obsession over sex became. Before Jodi he was surrounded by Mormon women so it was easier for him to control himself. Jodi opened another world for him. A world he was not ready to leave. This is why he never declined her offers for sex. He knew that she was not for him, but he was not ready to let go of this woman that was willing to do things with him that his Mormon women did not want. And this is why he wanted to get married so much in the end. He wanted sex. He did not want Jodi. He needed a wife to be able to have sex without feeling in sin.
And ultimately this is why I am against religion when the things are represented as so black and white. No one should follow a doctrine if they do not believe in it. Travis was not ready to be Mormon and he should have let it like that. Sometimes I feel like if he had realized sooner that the Mormon life is not for him, he would have had far better control over his sexual urges because he would not need to hide. And Jodi would not have used this against him making him feeling bad for committing a sin.
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But yes, Travis and Jodi were like oil and water... a moth to a lame. Toxic.
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They were toxic together. Most probably Travis brought out the worst in Jodi and vice versa.
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Travis did and does have Light Energy. Absolutely. He was human, he was flawed like all of us. He just made the mistake to getting tangled with a sociopathic witch in Arias.
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That's the bottom line. As flawed as he was, he did not deserve what happened to him.
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It just wasn't meant to be for sure. He was meant to pass on when he did and unfortunately how he did. I wonder how his family is doing. I hope they are okay. His brother especially seemed to broken.
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I hope that they are OK too. I don't think that they will ever get over this. They never got closure. This will haunt them for the rest of their lives. I only hope that they will be able to have healthy families despite all of this.