Talk:Mary Alice Young/@comment-24030496-20131009130738


 * After the first season where we discover exactly why Mary Alice killed herself, I've always wondered why she literally jumped the gun after she received the threatening note from Martha Huber? It seemed pretty irrational for﻿ her to just commit suicide because somebody threatened to expose her. Its especially mind boggling because unless she had a history of mental illness, It really doesn't make any sense. The woman had a husband and son she was leaving behind.

No matter how scared she was, couldn't she have explored all her options? Because suicide seemed completely unncessary. Couldn't she have shown the note to Paul and the two of them try to work out identity of the sender? That seems much more rational than blowing your brains out. I think that's exactly what any of the other housewives would have done. I'm sure Paul being as smart and calculating as he is could have deduced that the note came from Martha Huber. And considering how Martha Huber's motive was to blackmail the Youngs for financial support, they could have bought her off to keep her quiet.