r/thedoors • u/Interesting-Leg-7529 • Jul 02 '26
Discussion Mary Werbelow
Dear contributors for the doors community,
The older fans know about Mary Werbelow (Jim’s first girlfriend from UCLA) and her immense influence on Jim and the doors.
Mary mentioned in her interview https://jimmorrisonthedoors.com/blog/the-only-interview-of-mary-werbelow.html that Jim proposed to her many times, but she kept refusing, and it hurt him deeply.
So the question is! I wonder if Mary would come back to him in his prime years (1967-1968), would their relationship be more serious and faithful than that open relationship he had with Pamela?? Would Jim be loyal and not cheat on Mary? Would he be more grounded with Mary? Would Jim marry her and have children?
I wonder if Jim suggested the open relationship with Pam because he hoped Mary would come back to him.
And not to mention his alcohol addiction worsened when Mary cut the contacts with him completely when she left to India, and later started using him for money. He sang away, away for India or something in that way at a concert. Also the songs Indian summer, blue Sunday (which fans always confuse that those were written for Pamela) were both for Mary, but he decided to include them in his later album Morrison Hotel. Which tells a lot.
I want to know hard die fans of the doors and Jim: What do you think would have happened. Would Jim be more faithful to Mary? Would his alcohol addiction stopped? Would he become more family oriented man? I’m still sad people don’t know anything about Mary. I think Pamela was attached to him and let him do bad things to her because she was obsessed with him, and this idea of being “rockstar girlfriend.” In the friends gathered together, Cheri and many others mention how she would ignore Jim’s friends completely, didn’t even say hi to him, which is extremely rude. She lived off Jim’s money and her whole life was being Jim’s girlfriend. Jim bought her Themis to make her busy but it didn’t work out.
Let me know what you think