if you have to bully someone into following you down a potentially life-averse path they are probably not a person who should be following you down that path, be it because your *friend/wife/parol officer* doesn't want to support you or be it because the path you're going down is very likely hazardous to the health of yourself and your *friend/wife/parol officer* or because your idea is objectively stupid.just because todd anderson bullied his wife until she broke down and allowed him to fulfill his neckbeard dream of playing mtg full time while neglecting all of his other duties does not make him a bad guy
todd anderson's journey -- for the time being -- paid out (see also: brad nelson), but if i were in either of their shoes, i would have
gotten a divorce. it's wrong of him to bully her and be an abusive piece of shit, but it's also wrong of her to not look out for her or their mutual self-interests by staying with him when he's working on a plan that is "support the two of us with random payouts at random intervals that may come in sparse amounts if they come at all that also incur a number of large expenses" without some kind of alternative plan in mind.
like i get sometimes you just have to go with your partner on the way to their life plan journey and rich or poor you stick with them, but when your partner says i'm going to play a card game targeted at teenagers to support us and drops the rest of his life to accomplish that with no actual goal in mind (because you cannot plan you're going to win every grand prix, etc, because that is both impossible and moronic), that's less easy to get behind than "I want to put my savings into starting x-project or starting a company or owning a business"
