MomOf286 wrote:Which vlog is the one where the penisgate happened and why on earth is she washing that grown man in front of god and everybody? Those feet!
Bonnie: ''Because he's MY husband and because I can!!!'' Cue hubristic smile to camera. It would be the same argument she uses for her (sometimes) questionable parenting choices and the same argument for filming and exploiting her children to earn an income and fund her lifestyle. They are HER children, so there. He is MY husband, so there. If I didn't know any better I'd think the humans in her life were possessions.
If you think of Joel as having authentic pride and Bonnie having hubristic pride, Bonnie's behaviour over Bollie/couchgate*** seems self explanatory:
Joel to a tea:
Authentic pride, as a core self-conscious emotion is believed to motivate people to persevere in the absence of extrinsic incentives and to foster the pursuit of altruistic and valued goal-relevant behavior.
Bonnie:
''....there is indirect evidence suggesting a link between hubristic pride and the pursuit of goals so as to attain acknowledgement from others. That is, hubristic pride has been linked to a hierarchical dominance orientation, in which status depends on social validation.''***
Here's a link for more reading -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3137237/ It also states there's a correlation between better impulse control in authentic pride than there is in hubristic pride because their goals are intrinsic and core related rather than extrinsic and social validation/dominance related. I can't help thinking of last spring when Bonnie impulsively took her kids out of school for a month to go to Hawaii (a mere couple of months after she came back from there) because it was oh so important they had to do it right then and there and it just simply couldn't wait til they were out of school for the summer. There's also a link to a higher percentage of anti social behavior in hubristic pride and there was that awful 'story time' vlog a few months after they got back from Hawaii where she recalls, while there, she had to go poop in the car. She did so, into a towel, and thought it perfectly ok to dump (excuse the pun) said contents into someone's household bin outside their home. If that's not anti-social behavior I don't know what is. She may have 'appeared' mortified in the vlog retelling that event but she made the decision and carried it out nonetheless.
Footnote: I'll also leave this here for you Bonnie, you're welcome:
Hubris - An ancient Greek word meaning pride or arrogance, used particularly to mean the kind of excessive pride or conceit that often brings about someone's downfall.
I am amused. 
