Jezza Dumped!

[Just-Jude]

He's been going through hell for her and still is! Why couldn't she have waited another year? Can she ever be trusted with men again?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-forrest-dumped-schoolgirl-lover-2644593

[bazwillrun]

"Life with a teacher must be unbearable. "

I wonder what he taught her !

[mikey4444]

To go out with someone her own age I would imagine baz !

[douglas9401]

Headline news: Daft wee lassie 'bored with everything'.

[andy-hughes]

This relationship was always going to struggle - two immature individuals were never going to see through the pressures that this situation caused them.

I have little sympathy for this man - he is the architect of his own downfall, abusing a position of trust to abuse a vulnerable teenager, and let's not pretend it was anything other than that.

Unsurprisingly, without the giddy feeling of 'romance' to sustain her, this girl has discovered that her fairytale has a base of harsh reality, and she no longer sees it as a viable future.

"Why couldn't she have waited another year? Can she ever be trusted with men again?"

Why should she wait? the relationship never had any sound mature considered future, as evidenced by this man taking her to France with absolutley no forward plan or means of support.

Can she ever be trusted with men again? Why should she not? We are taking a confused immature teenager - all the things she is entitled to be at fourteen, taken advantage of by a foolish immature man - none of which he is entitled to be.

She needs to see this for what it was - a brief infatuation with no solid basis in reality. It appears she has taken the first steps so to do, and move on in a more appropriate relationship.

He needs to try and accept the reality of what he has done, and the simple fact that his bubble has burst, and it is time to start thinking and acting like the mature adult he is supposed to be.

I think you will find it vey difficult to find anyone on AB who will agree with your viewpoint on this,or apparent defence of this man against this girl.

[boxtops]

well said, andy.

"He's going through hell for her"? - and quite rightly so, he's a pervert, in an illegal relationship with a minor who he abducted, and abused his position of trust as a teacher. He's the author of his own misfortune, I have no sympathy for him at all.

[Sqad]

LOL...well said boxy...."human failings" are alien to you then?

[boxtops]

Sqad, not at all - I know about "heat of the moment" :-) - but stopping and thinking for a moment about the ramifications of his actions, and the responsibility of his position as a teacher, should have come first.

[Sqad]

boxy

\\\\and the responsibility of his position as a teacher, should have come first.\\\

That is my definition of "human failings."

Husbands stray from their wives........human failings.
Wives stray from their husbands.....human failings.
Doctors have illicit relationships with their patients.......human failings.
Many people fiddle their tax returns......human failings.

Need i go on?

Their relationship would almost certainly have broken down whatever the sequence of events.

We ALL have human failings boxy...................even the righteous.

[boxtops]

Absolutely, sqad, we're all human in the end, but something should tell us that it's Just Not Right! (and I'm no angel, nor hold myself up to be!)

[DrFilth]

> even the righteous. <

so me thinking 70 should be 184 is that my failing -)

[Sqad]

\\\\it's Just Not Right! (and I'm no angel, nor hold myself up to be!\\\\

Exactly boxy.........and it is that that makes it so excitable and unmissable.

[ummmm]

Sqad...on another thread you talk about respect, or lack of. What about respect for your position? respect for her age and maturity? When it comes to sex you class it as human failings.

[Sqad]

ummmm...I wondered where you were this morning.

Respect is emotional.

Sex is physical.

In my definition.

It is the physical aspect that is difficult to suppress.

[boxtops]

sqad, you're being mischievous. I can't possibly agree with you. It's different if it's two consenting adults - this was abduction etc of a minor, it's criminal.

[jim360]

Even while they may be "human failings", surely the clue is also in the name "failings" -- so we should both try to avoid them (and will, inevitably, fail sometimes) an also try to advise others to avoid them (others who will equally inevitably ignore that advice). Just because everyone will fail, though, doesn't mean that we should try not to.

[Sqad]

boxy...you don't have to agree with me........i respect your opinion.

[boxtops]

:-)

[Sqad]

jim.....I agree.

But in failing, the majority, particularly in AB, want him hung drawn and quarterd, despite probably having those very same " human failings."

I very rarely use the term "compassion"..;-)......but it comes to mind in this case.

[jim360]

Further, some of the most powerful messages against failings are those that go "don't make the same mistake I did". I know that this wasn't the difference between me doing drugs or not, but certainly it was powerful and compelling to see a drug addict, who also looked like a total wreck, tell me almost with some fear in his voice "don't do drugs -- just, don't!"

Anyway, I can't accept the idea that because this was a human failing we should overlook it and shrug our shoulders, and meanwhile, follow the line of JJ who seems desperate to exonerate Jeremy Forrest of all blame.

[ummmm]

Respect is emotional? How so?