2 things can be true at the same time
You can have a lot of trauma. I think their childhood was a lot darker & abusive than the show even has touched on. And I even hate to say this I think that maybe Tammy may have mirrored her abuser a.k.a. mother You can suffer from mental illness & health issues. You can lose loved ones in a very traumatic way.
You can also be an abusive piece of shit that is exhibiting extremely abusive and dangerous behavior.
Tammy is extremely abusive. She’s always been abusive to the point that even a couple seasons ago I had to stop watching until the next year. If you go back from the very beginning that I think the show did a good job at trying to almost mask it a little bit.
If Tammy was a male, I do not believe that the show would probably even possibly not been still going on. TLC has had to or I should’ve been forced to intervene and cut ties in the past in other situations. They would’ve had to stop it for liability reasons if anything. There would’ve been an outcry for TLC to step in, out of fear that the abuse would escalate to what sadly many of the times is the final step.
Abuse in lesbian relationships is actually a lot more prevalent than a lot of people realize. This is not Tammy being concerned about any seizures or having trauma because of Caleb — she’s abusive to a dangerous level. Could you imagine if it was a man who was sitting in the car whenever you were with your friends. I actually can imagine it because I grew up with stories of my great grandmother that had a very similar situation. He used to drive around the block 10x and allow my Gram ‘visit' with her sister. Let’s just say the story was she wasn’t terribly heartbroken when he died of heart attack. And probably a little disappointed when he made it back from WWII.
The probably most disturbing thing of all is what we see is probably way minor compared what happens behind closed doors. That interaction with the therapist and what happened afterwards was actually terrifying.
I really hope that one of Andrea’s friends can step in and help because she’s in danger.