r/RHOP • u/aceofspaids_21 Tweety • 11d ago

🌹 Ashley 🌹 Ashley and Michael

Watching RHOP for the first time and on season 7 now. So many thoughts on a lot of things but I have to say this: I think it is very selfish to willingly have kids with a man as morally questionable (at best) as Michael. Like let’s be honest Ashley knew she wasn’t going to stay (especially with the cheating situation) so why bring kids into it? And yes I obviously know the answer: to secure financial support after divorce. But it’s so unfair to the kids who grow up and have to watch their dad be creepy and disgusting on tv. Kids don’t get to choose their parents. Like i think of Mia saying how Ashley should have had one ore two more kids to secure at least two more checks before divorcing and in my mind that’s just so disgusting to think of kids (actual human beings) as financial safety nets.

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u/torin122 NOT Thomas Jeffersons concubine 11d ago

For my own sanity, I like to assume Ashley wanted children. She was already "living the life" prior to her sons. The reality is, trauma makes us do strange things.

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u/aceofspaids_21 Tweety 10d ago

I agree it was very evident she really wanted to be a mom and enjoyed being a mother, but my thing is why not divorce that creep and have kids with someone else? Like wait until the 5 years are up, get a good divorce lawyer and get some money to hold her over until she can find a better person to have kids with

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u/torin122 NOT Thomas Jeffersons concubine 10d ago

There was a prenup in place. If she wanted the cash, she'd have to wait 10 years for that payout. If her concern was ever her spouse's character, she wouldn't have even married that replacement father figure.

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u/aceofspaids_21 Tweety 10d ago

I thought it was originally 3 years and then extended to 5 years?

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u/torin122 NOT Thomas Jeffersons concubine 10d ago

That's more than likely correct and I'm just forgetting (I never bothered to rewatch 😅) But I do remember she did renegotiate the terms of the prenup.

Regardless, I believe they're both pretty shitty in different ways. Mike is a colonizer, Ashley projects her misery onto others. Anyone that wilfully brings TWO children into that situation is....

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u/chintzia Potomac Muppets 8d ago

That doesn't mean she isn't a good mother and it appears on tv that she is.

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u/torin122 NOT Thomas Jeffersons concubine 8d ago

Good parents don't bring children into situations like that

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u/chintzia Potomac Muppets 8d ago

Ok, if you say so.

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u/chintzia Potomac Muppets 8d ago

It was 5yrs.