Quote: (01-30-2014 06:58 AM)Mage Wrote:
This article just makes both of these guys sound like beta.
It's a sad read for me as I was thinking of Branson as a strong personality and a good role model, but this shakes his reputation in my eyes. Stalking a married woman like that seems too obsessive. Were she a virgin it could have been pardoned but an already used woman is not worth that. He got her with money and not personality, how boring.
Ronnie - His biggest mistake was not impregnating a wife for 12 whole years. The woman's imperative is to get pregnant and if a man cannot impregnate her for whole 12 years then her subconscious must decide to reject this man and start looking for alpha seed elsewhere. There is no point to marry a woman if you don't want children. Keeping a healthy and functioning womb out of work is just asking for trouble. It doesn't matter how alpha the man was at start and how much the woman is at love in him at start - not fulfilling the biological imperative takes its toll. You can game a woman for a year or maybe five, but after that if the woman doesn't get children she starts to question her love. Nature abhors vacuum. His second mistake is obviously his Oneitis. As a Rockstar he had no need to get fixed on any single woman who was not even a mother for his children.
It seems to me that Joan really wanted children and the fact that she got preggy from Bronson, quite fast and the whole drama surrounding her pregnancy in contrast to 12 childless years with rockstar guy - all that involuntary played in Branson's favour and cemented their relationship. That and his money.
Good point!
Let me add another. Ronnie said: "I confronted him - there was no violence or anything - we had a meeting and I asked him for the sake of our marriage to leave Joan alone."
Sorry man, but this is where you do threaten violence. It has a two-pronged effect since it scares the guy and turns on the woman (even though she'll say otherwise). By being laid back about a threat to his marriage, he showed he really didn't have much passion.
I think what he really regrets isn't that she got away but that he let it happen. It's not a matter of her, it's a matter of pride. When you don't give something your all and realize it was important, that's what you regret.
Had someone tried to steal his instruments would he have thrown a punch?