Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[maidmarian]

Owen is the good guy here... I don't remember him having an affair or jumping into bed with anyone.
Katie takes after her mother.

yes-and he was the parent who loooked
the daughters throughout childhood.
Theres bad publicity about "absent fathers"
- but sometimes its the mother who "absents"
herself-like in this case.
Enough tho not perfect person-Owen was
the one who brought them up and deserves
some credit!

[swmc66]

he does deserve credit for bringing them up

[Dazzle]

Owen is the good guy here... I don't remember him having an affair or jumping into bed with anyone.

Owen's definitely not the good guy here in my opinion. Linda having an affair had no bearing on her right to be a mother (or the kids' rights to have a mother in their lives). Owen cut her out to spite her without thinking of the emotional consequences for the kids. It was all done to punish Linda because she hurt his feelings. Even worse he allowed them to believe Linda left because of Izzy's disability, and we all heard Izzy tell him what a devastating effect that's had on her life. What a burden for her to carry around!!

Linda didn't absent herself (except for two months) as she wanted contact with the kids and kept trying for years by the sound of it. I don't know why she didn't seek access by legal means but that's another matter - maybe she'll explain herself later.

Of course Owen deserves credit for bringing them up on his own but the fact remains that this happened down to his choices as Linda wanted to be there. He's a bully through and through!

Neither of these parents are good guys.

[swmc66]

i know but the job he took on was a tough one with a disabled child. Yes he separated them from their mother which is unforgivable but very common when couples split up

[Dazzle]

i know but the job he took on was a tough one with a disabled child. Yes he separated them from their mother which is unforgivable but very common when couples split up

I don't really see how he can be given that much credit for doing a tough job when it happened solely because of his own selfish choices. The punishment he doled out to Linda for deserting them for two months was to keep her separated from her kids for life. He doesn't appear to have been concerned that the girls were being punished too.

I get just as angry when mothers deny fathers access to their kids for selfish reasons.

(Maybe I'm being slightly biased because I already detested Owen. )

[Perdita]

She did not make herself absent though ... Owen returned all the letters and presents she sent to the girls unopened because he got hurt by her having a brief affair when she quite possibly was suffering from post-natal depression and we know she felt unable to cope with Izzy's illness at the time. We know Owen has a bully when he first came to Coronation Street, maybe he was horrible to her at the time she had the girls, leading to her going with somebody else, we don't really know about that time to form an opinion. However, he should have worked on overcoming his feelings of hurt and anger and let her be a part in the girl's lives and not let them believe that it was Izzy's illness that kept her away all those years. Yes, he seems to have done a good job raising them on his own but that was his own decision!!


Took me rather longer to put this together and post it -this was meant to go under snagglepus's comment on Owen being the good guy here, so apologies for repeating what Dazzle has said !!

[swmc66]

is he going back to Linda?

[Perdita]

Spoiler:

We know Katie leaves Weatherfield to join Linda in Portugal, not sure he goes with them or just leaves the area

[Dazzle]

...apologies for repeating what Dazzle has said !! [/I]

I never mind being agreed with Perdy!

Good call on Linda possibly suffering with post-natal depression.

[mariba]

She hasn't explained why didn't she seek any legal advice? Or are we meant to think that Owen bullied her so badly that her self esteem was low? It wasn't low enough for her to have affairs though..
I don't blame only Linda-what Owen did was really bad, maybe in Izzy's case- unforgivable(oh no, we have to watch Izzy crying for quite some time now..!!), but mothers are like tigers when it comes to their children. No way could my husband ever keep me away from our kids!!! In Emmerdale we have Emma Barton and now Linda in Corrie..is this very common in real life too?