At its best, their relationship was a volatile mix of fights, breakups and makeups, him criticizing her, her crying and self-harming, then him saying he loved her
The blackest period of Caitlan Coleman’s curious life, spent largely in the immense shadows cast by Joshua Boyle, came when she was living in the rudimentary toilet room of the couple’s quarters in Afghanistan.
By then, they had three young children, and “Josh would sometimes allow them to visit me or I could come out to visit them.” But mostly, she said, the visits would end quickly, with Boyle telling her “’You don’t know how to talk to kids, you’re the worst mother ever’.Their oldest child, she said, was by then so inured to trauma, he didn’t react.
What is at issue here is Boyle’s alleged treatment of Coleman before captivity, during it, and after, when the couple was flown back to Canada within days of being released. At its best, their relationship was a volatile melange of fights, breakups and makeups, him criticizing her, her crying and self-harming and self-diagnosing as a borderline personality, then him saying he loved her and her filled with excitement.This, as it turns out, was the jihadi-loving Zaynab Khadr, sister of Omar Khadr, and after a period of unspecified serious illness, Coleman pulled her life together.
As was always the case according to Coleman, as soon as they were physically together — in the same country — the relationship would deteriorate. He’d tell her how to dress , and she’d do it “because I knew that it pleased him.”
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