Bridget Macron

Mt61

Feel more sorry for the staff, who had to witness the incident.

And, this kind of behaviour in front of staff does suggest it’s not isolated

Ilovedogs22

Poor Brigitte, how awful to have your life publicly disected the world over!
It's hard enough being a woman without being under that level of scrutiny! 🤨

Ilovedogs22 She’s not helping herself , by hitting her husband. Of course could be the start of dementia.

Feel more sorry for the staff, who had to witness the incident.

Hardly. Body language suggests otherwise. He’s probably gone back to tell her to calm down and tell her that the door was wide opened when she pushed him.

It's not clear what happened. Macron himself said they were having a joke.

It's not clear, but at the same time Macron himself said about it to journalists, nous sommes en train de nous chamailler. That means, he said they were "having a squabble". Then added, joking around.

I'm not an expert, but I heard what he said in Hanoi. He looked exasperated. 😠

ronib

Given that the general public has no information about why and what was actually happening, I can’t understand how everyone is such an expert….. exactly who is being abused?

Oh but surely that’s the motto of Social Media-

Everyone’s An Expert?

It's not clear what happened. Macron himself said they were having a joke. Anyway, their age-gap story is interesting. There is no evidence of misconduct when he was a minor. Brigitte herself has said that she recognised and admired his intellect, but expected (over a decade) that he would find someone his own age (which, as she said, did not happen). My guess is that he responded to her admiration and support, and continued to derive benefit from it, perhaps even need it.(Apparently he pursued her, it was not the other way round).

Given that the general public has no information about why and what was actually happening, I can’t understand how everyone is such an expert….. exactly who is being abused?

Abuse is abuse, whether it is violence or coercion, whether it is male on male, male on female, female on male or female on female. Whether, rich, poor famous or infamous.

It should never be tolerated, there should not be any excuses.

The more it is brought out in the open, the more chance of the abused being able to speak about it and escape.

You are correct.

fancythat, domestic abuse crosses all society. Police, probation, social workers will know wealthy, successful, professionals, teachers, doctors, social workers, health workers etc as well as the classic chaotic families most often associated with violent domestic abuse. People are very good at hiding, denying, minimising - just as we’ve seen comments on here doing exactly that.

Has left me wondering what goes on behind closed doors of even people I know.

Thankfully, only one, family abuse situation, has come to light, amongst anyone I know.
The lady concerned drew the line at her kids witnessing it, so told people. Even her own family had no idea. They were horrified at what had really been going on.

I have been surprised by this thread.

I had assumed there would be overwhelming almost horror. But no.

I've just had a long lunch with French friends here in France. It's a national holiday today, so round the table there was a mixture of ages/professions.

Their opinion was that the couples' argument itself didn't really bother them, but that the blatant cover up and denial by the Élysée Palace was shameful. They see it as yet another exemple of untruths and poor communication from Macron.

BlueBelle

Well I m sure we ll never know, and I m sure it’s not what he said it was, and I m also sure it’s not the first time. She must be quite a confident woman and he must have made a big faux par to sock her husband in a public place, like she did 😱
I d have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they got into a private place.

I can't agree with you, here, sorry.

In my opinion a confident woman would have ignored whatever another person did wrong in public, and told him off about it as soon as they were alone.

And surely, the only excuse for hitting someone is that they were offering one violence?

Anything else could have been dealt with by just walking away, surely?

Disagreements in a relationship aren't unusual it's true ronib shoving the other one in the face albeit with a flat hand should be.

So this couple had a disagreement- hardly unusual in a relationship? In fact, pretty commonplace….

Yes, and Macron was the same age as Melania when the relationship (allegedly) started after he'd finished his studies ie 27 and Melania met Trump.

Sky News Report.
news.sky.com/story/classroom-crush-to-face-push-key-moments-in-the-macrons-relationship-13375323
It’s interesting to note that the age difference between the Macrons is the same as between the Trumps.

Jealousy ?

In an article linked earlier in this thread, her daughter talked abiut how difficult her mother’s relationship with Macron was to her teenage children.

Indeed, they were both lovers of literature and apparently spent time together discussing 19th century French Romanticism.

Perhaps he wasn't like other teenagers, perhaps he showed exceptional talent, was exceptionally focused, who knows? According to the Guardian she said she was captivated by his intelligence.

I think the Macrons are quite careful clever at describing their early relationship too.
I remember Brigitte saying, that at school Macron wasn't like the other boys. She said he wasn't like a teenager, and that she was "captivated" by him. However, no one knows to what extent.

I sometimes find in life, that peoples' standards of acceptable behaviour, are lower in some people, than in others.

I remember Sadiq Khan finding a certain level of knife crime in london acceptable, when others are horrified.