Mismatched expectations.
I am scratching my head. My opinion aint worth diddly squat but I can say that I have never been to AFF, never communicated with Amy or Gareth, and am not biased in any way.
Well why don't you stfu bodie? I am finding it hard to
not have an opinion now that we have this outpouring of 'grief' that is seeping out through many threads.
I am trying to be 'considerate' here as I can see that the closure of AFF has caused enormous grief and sadness ? WHY ? What have you lost? Apart from the one member who made a financial contribution, exactly how have you been wronged? You have been using a free forum. Surely you must have 'gained' not 'lost'
What did you expect?
*What is the life expectancy of a forum?
*Did you expect them to run it forever?
*Did you expect them to bend over backwards for a membership when so many of it's members have joked and jibed and said nasty things about their marriage? (i am aware that Amy is allegedly a fat, mad, crazy cunt who is much older than Gareth? how would I know this if it hadn't been written about quite a lot)
*Say Amy is batshit crazy and has made some bad decisions (and i really don't know) but did anyone honestly expect Gareth to risk marital bliss by going against her?
*It seems that the *expected* course of action is for them to 'hand it over' , well, erm, wtf would they? It sounds like they had some shit to deal with, as in stalkers and death threats and I wonder if they had any support? I wonder what they got out of running it at all?
Maybe they had expectations too.
Reading between the lines of Gareth's message I doubt the 'recent' drama is the real cause. Possibly the straw that broke the camels back. If they been running it for ten years then I reckon it is a build up of things.