Finding out the truth (although I suspected she was his mom from the get-go) is hard, but when you see her backstory, you realize she's actually been fucked over and fucked up in and out of her home and she's actually been traumatized. She can't be seen as normal. She's a broken person who has to heal, too, though her issue isn't physical.
This story has a lot of wounded people who react in different ways to their pains and sufferings.
What I find interesting here is that some characters do change..change is possible. So, there's always hope for even those who seem like villains.
Just the fact that she loved him after she knew he s not that much of a burden is the thing that really bothered me ..... I know pple like that in real life that pray day and night for their sick kids to just pass away cuz they feel the same as the mom here ..... and that s so wrong.. it s the same as a parent who only loves their straight As kid and neglect the other C kids . hope she ll truly change fr as you said
This one is more complicated. Being assaulted, then being called a slut by your peers, then being called a disgrace and slut by your parents, then being thrown out of the house, then being told the only way to redeem your life is to fake being a goody-goody orphanage person to hide your unwed (rape) pregnancy.....try going through that and tell me you're not gonna be super messed up. NO one took her side as she went through this ordeal, until Griffin, and she feared him (well, in her shoes, most women would fear a man who looks tough, much more a criminal record).
She was even told to adopt Merry as a cover, someone even more disabled than Elios.
I guess while I'm disgusted with her POV, I'm also even more disgusted with every single person who decided she was a waste, a disgrace, a slut, an embarrassment. They made her hate everything about her situation, including herself and her baby.
In other words, Elios was not the only one not raised with love. Neither was Mariana.
That women is completely disgusting..... I felt so angry about her judgment about the disabled persons and truly offended ... I have disabled siblings and pple really do see them as punishment from god for us and always wish for them to pass away so that we can live free from this burden and have more time to focus on our own goals and spend more of the money we work hard for on ourselves instead of " wasting " it on them ... these kinds of pple give me nausea and stomachache ..
Sorry for getting so emotional over a fictional story but it really made my heart ache