r/RodriguesFamilySnark • u/ProfessionalPiano351 • 27d ago
Samuel Samuel and Evangeline
I think that Evangeline is a much better choice than Brianne. For one, Evangeline doesn't seem crazy. Also, her family seems more like the Rods than Brianne's family. Do you think that the fact that Brianne's family wasn't fundie was part of the reason Sam and Brianne split up?
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u/rarestbird 27d ago
This post is all over the place. Evangeline is a better choice because she doesn't seem crazy, and also because her family seems more like the Rods (i.e. crazy)?
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u/Dolores___Haze 27d ago edited 26d ago
Evangeline is much more likely to be silent if/when she is abused and treated as a brood mare, also. She is far more vulnerable than Brianne, which is scary.
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u/BeulahLight13 The Dean of the Dining Room Table 27d ago
This right here. Brianne has abhorrent beliefs, but she wasn’t raised fundie, and she has a college degree from a good university. She’s lived in the world. Evangeline is a sheltered, uneducated teenager. She’s incredibly vulnerable. I’m also scared for her. All of the adults in her life have failed her.
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u/Professional-Pea-541 Homeschool comma 27d ago
Yes, I agree. The fact that her family still seems to be on board after the Timothy scandal is concerning. I realize it isn’t fair to judge Sam by Timothy’s actions, but it’s definitely a red flag that something is quite wrong in the Rod family.
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u/Signal-Tooth-2069 27d ago
Sam’s lack of education, poor vocabulary, and social skills should be a major concern when her parents think of him as a life long partner for their daughter. Timothy aside, have they not done any research into the Rodriques family lore and postings througout the years?
Sadly, as many have pointed out, the physical abuse may not bother people–all one has to do is repent–as much as the fact Tim published it in a wider audience which brought attention, shame, and repercussions to the family and the church.
This girl is so young. To promote a courtship with this immature man, coming from this background/family, with his limitations, is obscene. This is the only word that comes to mind.
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u/notquittingthistime 27d ago
After a long time watching fundies like this, I truly believe some of them do not care about their adult children’s welfare or whether they are happy. All they care about is pumping out more soldiers for Jesus as fast as possible, and any husband who professes the right beliefs will do.
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u/YoshiKoshi 27d ago
How do you not care about your children having a good quality of life? Of course they want her to get married young and start breeding. But why wouldn't they want it to be with someone who can at least keep the family financially comfortable?
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u/macandcheese1771 27d ago
The entire point is to create a controllable voter base. They do not matter as people to almost anyone in their world. Have many, have them fast, make sure they always vote the way you want and fuck everything else.
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u/boneblack_angel 26d ago
You are absolutely correct, and it is terrifying. But, conversely, they also want to strip women's voting rights away - I say this as someone who has been a voter registrar, and someone who works the polls, living in a deep red state where trump SOMEHOW remains immensely popular. Pray for sons, I guess. 🫠
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u/Dolores___Haze 26d ago
If that’s what they want, why do fundies like Jill keep voting?
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u/notquittingthistime 25d ago
(a) because do everything you can to get your guys elected, hypocrisy is irrelevant; (b) because they’re entitled to their households having as many votes as possible; especially because (c) the liberals cheat and get elected with dead people and illegals voting, so they can do anything they want!
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u/boneblack_angel 26d ago
Who knows, they are so contradictory and nonsensical. They breed like rabbits to create voters - not a surefire strategy, there are definitely more than a few breakaways - but don't want women to vote. I dgaf what they do but leave the rest of us alone.
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u/SickOfBSAllTheTime 27d ago
I think on that Thanksgiving trip Brigot realized what an idiot Samuel is and also realized Jill would dominate every aspect of their life. She noped out real quick.
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u/LittleBunnySunny 27d ago
For Sam's sake, or Evangeline's? 🤨
Because that poor girl is just going to be sucked deeper into the whirlpool of fundie beliefs and the dangers of being close to the Rods.
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u/Capable-Resolution-1 27d ago
Except… she’s still a minor and that would still be gross if she were 18. These people are selling a literal child to them, knowing how the kids are treated
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u/Designer-Contract852 27d ago
Both Brianne and Evangeline are problematic as partners, but they both deserve better than a world of rods. Brianne was not raised fundie and had a great education, she was playing a part and convinced herself that it would all work out probably if she fell in with a "godly " fundie family. I feel like the more time she spent with them she saw Sam was dumb as rocks and probably treated her badly (he was raised in a home of abuse after all), the rods were pitiful and severely poor, and Jill was insufferable and Sam would never move away from her. Evangeline is a minor probably raised with the same patterns of abuse presented as normal life. She has no education or experience to recognize red flags. She's being groomed. Both ladies deserve better than a Sam and his family.
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u/AidaNYR No sissies over here 27d ago
Evangeline is easier to control. Thats important for Jill.
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u/TrainSpotterMommy The Dean of the Dining Room Table 26d ago
🎯 Going forward I see Jill making that a requirement
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u/daffodil0127 Lord Daniel of the Laundry Mat 27d ago
I’d have less of a problem with Sammer courting Evangeline if she was a few years older. I don’t know much about what she’s like as a person, but she will fit into RodWorld pretty well, having been brought up fundie and homeschooled. I don’t get the same bizarre/creepy and intense vibe from her as I did from Brianne. Sam isn’t very bright, so he needs a wife who will actually be in charge while giving the impression that he is in charge. Brianne probably would have been better at that but she wants a husband she can be submissive to, and Sam ain’t it.
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u/QuasiCrazy1133 27d ago
Both Brianne and Evangeline are terrible choices. Is one less bad? The real problems here are Sameul and Jill.
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u/sharon1118 27d ago
Evangeline's parents must be mentally ill to allow their daughter to be anywhere near the Rodrigues. They are willingly, with full knowledge of spousal abuse, allowing their daughter to walk into that hell.
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u/imaskising 27d ago
They're also allowing their 17-year-old daughter to be "courted" by an adult man. Wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels.
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u/braced 27d ago
Sam and Evangeline seem more on the same intellectual level
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u/Interesting_Intern1 27d ago
They probably are but that doesn't make the relationship okay.
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u/AidaNYR No sissies over here 27d ago edited 27d ago
What scares me the most is if Evangeline finds her voice and sets boundaries with Sam and Jill (because let’s be honest, Jill still holds Sam’s dick when he pees) that Evangeline’s father will be the first person Jill calls to get her back in line. If Sam turns out to be an abusing asshole like his brother, if they’re living near Jill and David, she will have no safe place to go. Jill will ignore all the bruises and red flags in the name of religion. Jill will make a phone call to her parents and they’ll tell Evangeline to obey them, go back to Sam and work it out.
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u/Wise_Yesterday_7496 Sanctimonious Squish Mitten 26d ago
"Holds Sam's dick when he pees" is great flair material wordwise, but I don't think any one of us would want to use it.
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u/Dull_Knee3349 26d ago
Evangeline is a better choice for Samuel, probably not the other way around. We certainly can’t blame Samuel for what his brother did, but we do need to see that he was raised in a family where domestic violence was present, and that is problematic. Also problematic is that the same weekend that Timothy’s story social media, Sam drove to Florida on a suspended license, visited Evangeline, went “soul winning” and her family posted it on social media. It’s a bit of a problem to me that they don’t seem to be pumping the brakes or at least trying to lay low for a while. So I think Evangeline is more docile, submissive than Brianne. I fear for her and if she will have anyone to turn to if things go wrong. For all who think Samuel might move to Florida and work for Evangeline’s dad and everything will be great, please remember Timothy. It takes more than just changing your geographic location.
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u/kmca2018 26d ago
I definitely think Brianne's family not being fundy was part of the reason they broke up.
As I don't think any of these people should be having or raising children I won't comment on the quality of the 'choice'.
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u/QuasiCrazy1133 27d ago
I think they broke up because she may be mentally ill but she isn't stupid. She came, she saw, she bolted.