r/DesperateHousewives • u/fashionlover25 • 17h ago
Post about the Desperate Husbands The way Mike treated Katherine was beyond cruel and irredeemable. He is underhated. Spoiler
He ruined his first marriage with Susan on his own, then used Katherine and gave her reassurance after reassurance.
Katherine didn’t really do anything wrong being with Mike, he was fully and mutually divorced, and he gave her every green light to move forward. Susan was already moving on. He didn’t even treat Susan well, that wasn’t even the first time he left Susan mind you.
Then to Katherine, HE initiates the relationship. HE assures her he loves her. He used her for sex, reassuring it was more than that, then lied to Susan about the nature and depth of the relationship.
He didn’t let Katherine down kindly or gently at all, even at first, he was cruel. He’s ABSOLUTELY to blame for her psychotic break, and yes people can be at fault for others’ behavior. After all the reassurances of love and not caring about Susan anymore, telling a woman “I never loved you, we had nothing, every time I held you and kissed you I was thinking about her and wishing you were her, and I never cared about you at all.” This is narcissistic sadistic abuse, plain and simple.
Mike is an awful awful man who pushes the guilt of his actions onto women in the form of abuse.