The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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This week on our favorite television programRich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things.
What will the rich ladies do when there is no help around?
Lug their own bags?
Yeah, rich ladies.
Why do you think its called luggage?
And there is no help in Palm Springs.
Oh, Im sorry, its not Palm Springs.
This should not be confused with the budget hotel chain.
(My father always jokes that La Quinta must be Spanish for behind a Target.)
This is a new house that she probably bought with the spoils from the stolen one.
I dont understand why L.A. people are always clamoring to get to Palm Springs.
Its an expense she can no longer afford.
At the old house she heated it for 20 years and never got in it.
Life is very different when youre looking at the bills.
I can totally see that, but I still dont think she knew where the money was coming from.
Instead, shes choosing to talk about what is going on with her and Tom personally.
Erika told Kyle even before this that Tom was deteriorating and wouldnt do anything to help himself.
Or maybe there wasnt much understanding to be found.
When Tom did call Erika, she just assumed he had been off with another woman.
This is the real tea, as middle-aged women at Home Goods say when buying actual tea.
(Does this mean that Erika thinks that David might have been cheating on Yolanda?
Hmmmm???)
She found evidence that he had been having at least one affair for a number of years.
To make it even worse, he didnt even deny it.
Erika was just stuck dealing with this knowledge.
Youre a beautiful woman.
Erika responds, coldly, Where am I going?
I found this hard to watch for a number of reasons.
The first is Kyles seeming belief that Erikas only value is that shes beautiful and of course (!)
she could find another rich guy to take care of her.
Yeah, you might not agree with it, but that is her truth.
But also, as Kathy points out, Tom led her to believe that she couldnt do better.
Enough years of that and it sinks deep down inside and you will never get it out.
Kathy makes another very interesting point about how many marriages that work are built on trust.
There are many wives who got in trouble doing just that.
Just ask Teresa Giudice.
For one of those assumptions to be true the other has to be false.
And if one of those assumptions can be false, cant both of them be?
Even though he struggled for years, no one saw it coming.
Erika didnt know all of Tom.
Erikas friends didnt know all about her.
And we certainly didnt know, and will never know, all of Erika either.
This is hard for us fans.
We love this show because it promises us a way in.
But we can only see what they show us.
This whole thing is like a lunar eclipse on a new moon.
Its about the light peeking out around the sides of something that is huge and unmovable.
She tells us we need to light a candle and blow it out.
