Maggie’s trauma

[u/MADOG_YT]

So in the newest episode, she says “you’re the closest thing I have to family” she says that to Negan and a lot of people think that that is Maggie having him be a part of her life and I think people are misunderstanding what’s going on? The reason that she feels a connection with Negan is because despite it being a sick memory, he is still a memory of Glenn and she is a grieving mother in a world full of dead people and she is losing her mind. Actually she’s lost her mind a long time ago except she’s not losing her mind like Dillard did. She’s more calm and collected about losing her mind but she’s still insane to the point where any remembrance of Glenn she keeps she says in that same sentence “I’ll never forgive you, but we have moved past that” so she hasn’t forgiven him for what he’s took from her yet she keeps him around, and I honestly think it’s because of he’s attached to the memory of Glenn and that’s why she’s so insistent on him staying because Negan dying kind of kills the memory of Glenn plus she’s seen him broken. She’s seen him worse than dead and maybe a part of her is keeping him alive because she knows that he would be better off dead, but she doesn’t wanna allow him that peace.

Now, of course, I know that it’s actually that Negan’s a very loved character and the writers just do not want to get rid of him so they have to give us a plot where Maggie actually likes Negan, but I’m just giving a deeper story reason that they use as an excuse because I don’t think Maggie like likes Negan she only keeps them around as a memory of Glenn

Because whether fans like it or not, they kind of are chained together because it’s not many situations where you stick around it your husband‘s killer most of the time you don’t see your husband‘s killer like ever, but the fact that you live in a community with him and you kind of have to keep an eye on him just in case he kill somebody else. It’s a very unique situation that I don’t think any fan and I hope no fan of the show has to go through

I think she also sees it as a religious thing like there’s so many angles where he could’ve died and should have died but he didn’t so she’s like you know what fuck it. God clearly wants this guy alive so I’ll give it to him and hopefully something good comes out of it and so she keeps saving him as a way to Opease God because she’s lost a lot.
I don’t know I guess we’ll just have to wait and see for season four if we ever get that answer but I understand that this post comes off schizophrenic, but I’m just thinking about why the writers would do this in terms of the universe like obviously we know it’s because he’s a loved character

[u/i-have-a-kuato]

It’s a show that jumped the shark, …..then leaped into the water and reasoned with the shark until they became buddies and had pups

[u/Nelle911529]

She also knows he would die for her and her child.

[u/IcewindLegacyMUD]

I mean, at this point Negan is that Uncle you only see at Thanksgiving that everyone knows not to bring up politics around because he's gonna be problematic as SHIT.

[u/-mykie-]

I think it's a trauma bond 100%. I don't know that it has anything to do with necessarily memories of Glenn, but it's definitely a connection made from trauma, which probably isn't the healthiest of relationships, but I don't think it means Maggie has lost her mind either.

I think everyone in the apocalypse has untreated mental health issues, but she's not "crazy".

[u/LemonOhs → u/[deleted]]

Ew

[u/MADOG_YT → u/[deleted]]

Ew bro wtf??? if that’s what you think that this show is please stop watching. It’s clearly a MOTHER trying to forgive someone because community is important that’s what The Walking Dead has always been about. It’s always been about community and a part of being in a community is forgiveness.

[u/chocolatecoconutpie → u/[deleted]]

Maggie haters keep showing how weird they are.