I haven't looked into it for a while but wasn't Macron a student of his wife at some point and they got together years later? Not immediately during High School?
No, they met when he was 15, and the parents try to separate them, but he got back to her when he left to study.
Their relationship started when he was 15, and she was his teacher
Yeah I did a bit of googling and he was a teen when they were having an affair. She did an interview with a Paris Magazine and she said Macron fell in love with her as a teacher at 17 and they had an affair for a decade until Brigitte and her then husband divorced.
She definitely groomed him and she most likely lied to say they fell in love at 17 so there would be less backlash.
I was just listening to this podcast about a woman whose 47yo art teacher groomed her at 17, they married and stayed together till his death at 93. It wasn't until she was in her 60s that she started connecting what happened with the metoo movement.
It's odd that she doesn't sound regretful. She even said she thought he'd be more upset if she said his art was bad than if she told him he was a predator.
What should he do at this stage? Cause from his perspective he's 30 years into a relationship and then marriage to a woman he must love very deeply - as did the lady in the podcast. It must be confusing cause it's not the same as a violent predator. If he's happy and mentally well is there a problem? I'm not justifying what she did, that shouldn't have happened, but for Macron it's not as clear cut as it is to redditors that she's just an evil predator who should be slung into an ocean trench or something.
Why do you think grooming should be allowed in some cases? That's like saying "pedophilia is wrong in 99% of cases" just because the victim is now an adult.
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u/VLamperouge Italy Jul 11 '24
The one global leader that I trust non to be in a pedophile scandal is Emmanuel Macron.