Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito

[Braingel]

Ugh, yes I got that impression too. Her van was decorated with flowers and shit lol.

Also, it’s kind of funny that Gabby is trying to become an influencer and monetize an anti-capitalist lifestyle where you minimize consumption, live off the grid, give up your 9-5 job, practice yoga in the desert, etc. She’s not the first to do this—van life vlogs became over saturated a long time ago on YouTube. She probably saw those videos and thought it would be a fun way to make money and a romantic trip with her boyfriend. I have trouble blaming her for that.

Also, someone call @Braingel because here’s a perfect example of people over 18 not acting like adults.

I mean.. the brain generally is not fully developed until 24-27 years old.. So it is indeed foolish for people to in society, expect 18-early twenty year olds to act like grown men and women, and able abstain from impulses and all that..

This especially becomes true for people who are victim of childhood abuse and missed out on a normal, healthy parental relationship that would have allowed someone to get what they needed to more timely, be mature. Also for people with developmental issues and who face mental health challenges.. These groups of people are not to conflate with already not grown adults.. They are even lesser times ready to be adults, assume full culpability, and to have life figured out.

[Poptart]

I mean.. the brain generally is not fully developed until 24-27 years old.. So it is indeed foolish for people to in society, expect 18-early twenty year olds to act like grown men and women, and able abstain from impulses and all that..

This especially becomes true for people who are victim of childhood abuse and missed out on a normal, healthy parental relationship that would have allowed someone to get what they needed to more timely, be mature. Also for people with developmental issues and who face mental health challenges.. These groups of people are not to conflate with already not grown adults.. They are even lesser times ready to be adults, assume full culpability, and to have life figured out.

I don’t remember their exact ages, but I think they’re around 20-22 years old. Definitely under 25. Have you read much about the case? I would be interested in hearing how you think it unraveled.

[Braingel]

I don’t remember their exact ages, but I think they’re around 20-22 years old. Definitely under 25. Have you read much about the case? I would be interested in hearing how you think it unraveled.

What do I think happened, it is a lot.. I only today just watched videos, I am watching a few.. I need to gather more facts, but so far from what I see, I see dysfunctional parents on both sides who did a very poor job raising both of their children, more so on Brian’s side (but Gabby’s as well, she has step uncles, I saw a message that has emotionally abusive, invalidating tone in her current step father).. And Gabby just wanted too get away and be happy.. She seems to have been more of a teenager psychologically-speaking.

[Braingel]

I don’t think either of Gabby or Brian was fully an adult, that is for certain.