GingerSweetGirl
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- Aug 23, 2020
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You know what's hilarious? I literally did forget about the casino incident. lolYou forget Liam was the one that basically lost their house to the mob because of his selfish gambling, which also contributed him to work longer hours as well as Sophia to get another job that would pay her some extra money. She definitely expressed her concerns to him after that but he really seemed to think it wasn't that big of a deal. In my opinion Sophia was too forgiving and didn't go far enough in punishing him. She should at least have moved out with the kids and stayed with her sister until Liam straightened out his own problem. Now she has gotten roped into solving his problem for him even if it is a benign task for her to do. Liam hasn't seemed to learn anything from this. If my wife did something like that I would have divorced her immediately. Liam is a jerk and Sophia is better off without him.
I go back and forth on the fallout of the casino disaster. On one hand, the results are so wildly terrible that they are both hard to take seriously and don't feel realistic. On the other hand, taken literally, they are an enormous betrayal of Sophia and the family. Someone with that kind of gambling problem needs immediate help, or else the family needs to seriously consider breaking away from him to protect themselves. And his actions since to make up for it haven't been great...but part of that I put on the writing. The Morello storyline seems very important, but it doesn't seem to be all encompassing. If a family had just lost the deed of their house to the mob, I think everything else in their lives would stop IMMEDIATELY. But both Liam and Sophia are carrying on a fairly normal life since then, so it makes it a little hard for me to judge just how serious of a problem it is since the main characters should be dropping everything in their lives to find a solution to this problem. And, these solutions should not rely on the "good faith" of the Don himself. I know Liam doesn't want to ask Carl, but there are other options (or Sophia could just tell him to suck it up, that they need Carl's help and that he needs to suck it up).
Let's not start this again. Sophia is not to blame for Liam's actions. While she didn't make the situation better by leaving him, he needs to be responsible and she couldn't have expected him to get into so much trouble. Sophia is selfish in other ways, but we need to separate that from Liam's actions because it diffuses blame and that's a tactic used by addicts to avoid responsibility.Sophia already knew about Liam and his gambling so where did they go?They went to a casino,great choice.
Sophia then left Liam alone to get felt up by Tyler,another great choice.
So you could say that Sophia was selfish in her actions and Liam should of known better.
So you cannot put all the blame o Liam as they both acted very naive
All that said, Liam and Sophia are in this together now, so it's best that they do approach it as a team. I don't agree with the idea that Sophia should have left him on the spot, and nor do I think she's to blame for Liam's actions. But they're in a serious pickle, and I hope that L&P commits more time to this story moving forward. I don't want to see it split time evenly with less important plots.