From the quotes in the article (I gave up the Daily Mail for Lent and haven’t gone back ;-), it sounds like she’s just incapable of feeling love for her children, no matter how much she does for them. I wonder if she’s the same way with her husband?
I also wonder what kind of sick satisfaction she gets from telling the whole world. It reminds me of the other “human interest in hating other humans” story about the woman who was going to leave her husband once their children finished high school, so she could have multiple casual sexual affairs. Like there’s that much interest in a late-50s woman who’s an absolute DOG, even by English standards ...
IMHO... I have known some people like this and you hit the nail on the head. She is incapable of showing true love to anyone. I could throw around words like narcissist or personality disorders but it boils down to what you said. She cannot truly show or feel love to her children or her husband. She probably had a vision of her life and it didn’t come true. Even if it did, she would be unsatisfied simply because she is incapable of feeling any true happiness. The people I pity, however, are her children. She just told the world that they are like parasites that made her unhappy. Sheesh.....