thisbirdhasflown on The Beatles Breakup

parlance said

thisbirdhasflown said

It's very difficult to rehabilitate a drug addict. Don't take Cynthia and May like it was their obligation. It wasn't. Somebody else could have helped John to rehabilitate. They didn't. There's more to blame than just 2 people.

I wasn't saying John was weak for being addicted. My point is there's a narrative that John was strong and it took strong people to handle him, and Cynthia and May were somehow lacking in character where Yoko wasn't. And in this narrative, what people associate with "strength" is really nothing more than abusive behavior (emotionally and physically). That's what I ...