I choose to think the pills and alcohol took voer
How could a Mother leave her children to face this?
Quite possible. Carelessly used drugs (alcohol being one), which she had hoped to provide an escape from the despair and distress, instead trapped her more tightly in it.
I can’t fathom the web of lies and delusion one would have to accept to get along in the Kennedy family. It would have (so to speak) driven Sigmund Freud insane.
I had a very bad first marriage, lost my mother to cancer at the same time the marriage was ending, lost a baby to miscarriage brought on by a beating from my first husband. Basically went through some really hard times. But the times when things got so bad I thought about ending my life, I knew I could NEVER do something like that to my children.
Suicide is the ultimate selfish act. Sorry, but a mother's first responsibility is not to herself but to her children.