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International Coercive Control Conference to Feature Former State Senator, Alex Kasser-Bergstein

Why would a trust fund heiress, a woman with a JD from the University of Chicago and a Masters in finger painting from Yale, a self-proclaimed lesbian who left her husband and children to pursue her inner child, persist in dragging out her divorce from that husband? Why drag her children into it? The news story announcing her participation in this upcoming pr stunt may provide an answer:

Dr. Evan Stark says it best, “They do it because they can. We still live in a society where people can get away with coercing and controlling another human being, and they can do that in a public arena. With the knowledge of police, with the knowledge of judges, in the presence of doctors and social workers, child welfare workers, largely without sanction.”

There are some people who simply can’t let go, and divorce cases seem to raise these psychotics to the surface like no other litigation. Kasser-Bergstein doesn’t need money; she doesn’t need the house, having left Greenwich long ago; and she’s permanently alienated her now-grown children, yet she persists. Everyone needs a hobby, but when an emotionally disturbed person turns what starts as a form of entertainment — pulling wings off flies, for instance — into her life’s cause and reason for being, it’s … sad.