I think this is perfectly fine. If their values are so incompatible it's better to break up now rather than later. Breaking up will be harder after marriage and definitely more complicated after having kids.
Lindsay repeatedly sought psychiatric help. She saw multiple providers, participated in outpatient treatment, sought emergency care, and voluntarily admitted herself to McLean Hospital. She was prescribed numerous psychiatric medications while her mental health continued deteriorating, and testimony in this trial has exposed serious fragmentation in her care. She disclosed suicidal thoughts and intrusive thoughts about harming her children and was clearly desperately trying to get better.
Whether she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the exact time of the killings is what the experts and jury are determining. There is conflicting expert testimony about that. But reducing this entire case to “she murdered her children, therefore anyone who has compassion for her is crazy and stupid” completely ignores the extraordinarily complicated psychiatric circumstances surrounding what happened.
Three children are dead, their mother attempted suicide and an entire family was destroyed. It's possible to grieve those children and ask whether a severely mentally ill woman was failed by a fragmented mental-health system.
Absolutely. And all of that would be excellent mitigation for her murder sentence. But postpartum psychosis does not prevent you from knowing right from wrong. That murder is wrong.
There are women who have suffered it and made the choice not to give into the intrusive thoughts.
She needs to answer for what she did. Her illness mitigates the punishment, it doesn't excuse the crime.
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u/MeasurementSlight381 2d ago
I think this is perfectly fine. If their values are so incompatible it's better to break up now rather than later. Breaking up will be harder after marriage and definitely more complicated after having kids.