Your question on the phone seems to me rather in line with the person who, having put a bellows to a fire, later stops by the scene to ask how things are going. Once you were here they all ate their words and performed fealty. You entered our house to destroy. Yours was an intervention characterized a blind, unjustified blaming of me who had dared to suggest that things were not right with Christina. Within weeks of your house-wrecking our marriage was all but over.
Symbiotic contagion can occur within social groups.
Divorces can be rather catchy. This is a game particularly relished by some suburbanites. Christina became enmeshed in, indeed impelled and abetted Carla s sudden push towards a divorce. Christina rolled many of the cannon balls that Carla fired at a most undeserving Bruce. It was their daily main topic, the boulder they shouldered to the precipice.