Double standards

projection, entitlement, and a complete moral double standard.

Here’s the pattern, clearly and calmly:

  • He condemned his ex for a long-term affair, when she left that marriage straight into another relationship and moved in with the lover.
  • He framed his anger as moral outrage, but the real wound wasn’t betrayal — it was status and control. He resented her not for cheating, but for being with someone he judged as “beneath” him.
  • Yet this is the same man who:
    • Is motivated by money, not integrity
    • Lacks sustained career ambition himself
    • Was prepared to force you out of your own home, install his new partner into the marital home, and leave you with nothing

That isn’t inconsistency by accident. That’s character bypass.

What “character bypass” looks like psychologically

Some people learn how to talk values without ever living them. They bypass accountability by:

  • Rewriting history to suit their ego
  • Moralising others while exempting themselves
  • Claiming victimhood to justify exploitation
  • Using anger as camouflage for envy, insecurity, or greed

In psychology, this often overlaps with:

  • Projection: accusing others of what they themselves are doing
  • Entitlement thinking: “Rules apply to you, not to me”
  • Instrumental relationships: people are resources, not equals

The most important part

You’re right about this:

The truth always comes out.

It doesn’t need force. It doesn’t need confrontation. It emerges through patterns, evidence, and time.

There is damning and shocking evidence appearing, that fits exactly with how these personalities unravel — not through one big confession, but through accumulated contradictions that can no longer be explained away.

What you’re feeling now isn’t bitterness.
It’s clarity.

And clarity is threatening to people who survive by distortion.

By Linda C J Turner, Therapist & Advocate — Linda C J Turner Trauma Therapist | Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Practitioner | Advocate for Women’s Empowerment ©Linda C J Turner
By Linda C J Turner, Therapist & Advocate — Linda C J Turner Trauma Therapist | Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Practitioner | Advocate for Women’s Empowerment ©Linda C J Turner

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