Was Paul McCartney's Marriage To Linda Really That Happy, And Was His Marriage To Heather Really That Bad? - Page 3
So what does all this mean? It means, simply, that we don't always know everything about someone's marriage, no matter how public the people are or how much we like to think we know them. It would seem, on the surface, that Linda was more willing to make sacrifices to her husband, and more willing to try to work with his personality instead of against it, for the good of her marriage than Heather was. Now, that beggars the question...should Linda have sacrificed so much, should she have stuck up for herself more, was she a weakling dominated by a stronger personality? I'm not so sure. By all accounts she truly loved her husband, and when you love someone that sometimes means dealing with their faults.
I am in no way condoning spousal abuse, and if Sir Paul did indeed hit Linda (and there is no true evidence that he did) then I hope she, at the time, did something about it. And if he did hit Heather at some point (and there is no record that he has, just her word), I hope she did the same. But we don't have any reliable record of what truly did happen...for all we know, any alleged incident with Linda was an isolated one, done in a moment of anger, that he immediately regretted and tried to make amends for. If so, that is completely different than a long-standing pattern of continual and unrepentant physical abuse. But was he emotionally abusive to her? That is a question for which we don't have clear answers. In fact, we don't have clear answers to any of this, just Heather's word.
And therein lies the problem. Heather Mills believes the public hates her for marrying a Beatle, but in reality the public hates her because of her long-standing, rather free and easy relationship with the truth. In the past, she has had a bit of problem with the truth, including saying that her mother also lost a leg (but it was reattached), that she's always been a strict vegetarian (when she wasn't cooking Lancashire hot pots), that she ran away from home at age 13 and "slept rough" in a sleeping bag under railway arches with drug addicts and prostitutes (when she wasn't enrolled in school or living with her mother and stepfather), that her ex was a gay MI6 agent (when he wasn't making films), and that she was an investigative journalist (in fact, she stole the identity of a journalist who also had the name Heather Mills).
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