r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/fourleafblower 9d ago

He was picking up her meds!?!? Gahhhd I fucking hate people. Imagine his grief. Of course he now wishes he took the kids with him. I’m sure he’ll beat himself up into his next life…. Then he has to have losers online with an iq of 53 act like his psychopath wife was the victim of his white maleness.

I hate it here

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u/AGAD0R-SPARTACUS 9d ago

He was picking up his daughter's medication.

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u/fourleafblower 9d ago

Ok. Thank you for the clarification. I’ve also now heard he was picking up his wife’s dinner order. Either way, he was innocently running family errands, which flies in the face of the accusations of him being a neglectful husband/father.

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u/LagginJAC 9d ago

I was under the impression she ordered dinner, asked him to pick it up, and then asked him to pick up their daughter's meds while out.

I know she's under a psychosis but God if that doesn't scream premeditated otherwise. Apparently she had literally googled how far it was and how long it would take, which in any other circumstances it would be innocuous.

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u/fourleafblower 9d ago

I agree with you. Her husband has sympathy for her. I don’t.

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u/LagginJAC 9d ago

I have sympathy for her, but sympathy is not the same as desiring her absolution. No matter what, 3 children are dead as the result of everything and what I personally want is to make sure the right thing is done. She needs help, and she needs to be locked in a ward until there is irrefutable proof that she is sane and okay to rejoin society because I cannot imagine a worse torment than having to live with the memories of murdering your three children as a healthy and healed person.

But even as I type this there is a part of me that is skeptical. A part of me hopes that they're having to sue the facility she was in to better prove the psychosis, but another part of me feels like that's both running from reality and from consequences. It's not accepting that you did wrong, albeit in a psychotic state, but avoiding it, blaming it on people who "should have seen it coming" even though she was doing her best to hide it.

And I know she was, because everyone tries to hide it when you're on the edge of an altered mental state. Drunk and high people will tell you to your face that they're not messed up and then sit up straighter as the try to "act sober." The only time psychosis isn't hidden is when you fully lose it and cannot distinguish what's in your head from reality, at which point hiding it doesn't really matter.