Ben and Katie's baby

[lilwriter85]

Many of you are familar with Ben and Katie. They are a fundie lite couple. They were injured in a car accident in 2009 and Ben was left with a TBI. They had a baby boy on October 2nd.

katieandbenupdates.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-baby.html

[LilMissMetaphor]

I saw that. I wonder how things are going with them, and if she'll be honest about his reactions to the baby. Good luck to them I guess. Sometimes when my husband is irritating me I joke about having three children instead of the two I actually birthed, but I can't imagine if that were really his mental/emotional level.

[lilwriter85]

I saw that. I wonder how things are going with them, and if she'll be honest about his reactions to the baby. Good luck to them I guess. Sometimes when my husband is irritating me I joke about having three children instead of the two I actually birthed, but I can't imagine if that were really his mental/emotional level.

I wish them the best too. I think they will get a lot of help from Katie's side of the family. Katie's siblings and their spouses have been pretty helpful over the years. Katie has said that a home nurse goes over. I don't know if the nurse goes daily or not. I have wondered about Ben's mentally capacity. He doesn't seem too verbal, but Katie has posted stuff about Ben having long conversations and I sometimes I wonder if she is being completely truthful. There are some things about Katie that bug me. Her overpraising of Ben's military career bothers me at times. My father was a military veteran and I do have a lot of respect for veterans, but I got turned off where Katie said something about Ben being elite and having many looking up to him. Then I have wondered how Katie and Ben manage to travel quite a bit, buy house, and do other things. I know Ben is receiving veteran and disability benefits, but I don't see how that covers the things he and Katie do. There was a guy on a Facebook page who posted about disliking Katie and her blog because how their economic lifestyle seems unaffected.

https://www.facebook.com/USAA/posts/101 ... d=16914206

Ed

Ok... Maybe I'm being too harsh, but the woman's husband got into a car accident. There are thousands of women going through much worse. Say for example; KIA surviving wives, and this lady comes along with her husband that hit an unfortunate everyday occurrence, and she gets a reward for posting about how hard its been, while sporting her middle class life being unaffected? Get real. Poor taste. I'm sorry. There are people dealing with much harder situations that deserve REAL awards. Its sad that this lady is top pick.

I think the guy's comment is a bit harsh, but I get what he is saying.

[bionicmlle]

The photos of Cruz are darling. I am hoping that Katie finds joy in parenting and much help from her family. Her post tonight had a number of adorable photos however I found the following photo beautiful and yet.... jarring. She is a beautiful bear-mama but there is something else that is haunting.

(sorry I don't know how to embed so am linking google --mods please just leave blog if necessary -- katieandbenupdates.blogspot.com/2014/11/and-few-more.html)

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[PityFree]

So this woman had sex with a man who was unable to consent to sex? Because that seems very wrong. Or did she have IVF? (which is still not great if he is a child mentally because of the TBI)

[Black Aliss]

So this woman had sex with a man who was unable to consent to sex? Because that seems very wrong. Or did she have IVF? (which is still not great if he is a child mentally because of the TBI)

You might be thinking of a different fundie couple with a TBI husband?

There's Ian and Larissa, Ian clearly not able to consent to much of anything. And Cale and Kathleen of adarlingkindoflife. Cale is definitely intellectually and emotionally impaired. His ability to consent, however, is none of my business.

I get the impression that Ben's TBI affected him physically more than intellectually and emotionally. He seems more functional than Ian or Cale.

[lilwriter85]

You might be thinking of a different fundie couple with a TBI husband?

There's Ian and Larissa, Ian clearly not able to consent to much of anything. And Cale and Kathleen of adarlingkindoflife. Cale is definitely intellectually and emotionally impaired. His ability to consent, however, is none of my business.

I get the impression that Ben's TBI affected him physically more than intellectually and emotionally. He seems more functional than Ian or Cale.

I've also gotten that impression.