Is it absolutely essential for a warring middle-aged couple to draw the battle-lines in public, on their Facebook pages, using their respective children?
What Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando wrote there on Facebook 10 days ago is nothing but a snub and public insult to his wife and her daughter, who he raised since the age of four or five and who he should, consequently, treat as his own.
With that unchivalrous, ungentlemanly public gesture (no matter what a woman does to a man, he should never insult her in public – or for that matter, in private), he triggered off the speculation and publicity about his latest set of problems.
Now he has his children defiantly up on Facebook, and she has her daughter. We had their ‘need to get married’ foisted on the entire country. I hope we are not going to be put through the same thing with their need to divorce before the four years are up.
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Drama queens.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando says there is nothing that makes him prouder than his three kids.
He should have added that there is nothing that humiliates his three kids more than their father.
Yes, probably the most mature thing for anyone over the age of 15 to do would be to close their Facebook account. It is dangerous to give human beings an outlet for the shoring up of their sense of self-importance and their calls for compassion and empathy, to say nothing of validation of their looks (‘sexy pic, hun!’ ‘wow, a beauty!’).
The truth is that no one cares, Pullicino Orlando. Fight your own battles in private.
There are other uses for Facebook besides being an idiot.
How tiresome. I cannot understand why so many people feel to need to publicise their private lives openly with all and sundry. I was always taught to have my own personal boundaries, as well as to respect others’.
Even away from Facebook, some people will start regaling you with all their troubles in excruciating detail five minutes after they get to meet you. I find it so embarrassing.
It-tfal kollha ikunu specjali ghal genituri taghhom, hlief ghal ftit eccezzjonijiet. Imma biex tkun specjali int, bhala genitur, trid ittijhom ezempju tajjeb, mhux kif ghamel u qed jaghmel Jeffrey.
It-tahwid li ghandu go fih, zgur li qed ikkisser lil uliedu.
Huwa persuna vojta, kiesha, prusuntus u egocentriku. Narcissist kbir. Dawn ma jaghmlukx genitur tajjeb.
Typical of people who think Facebook is an extension of their social life.
What the hell is wrong with the Maltese society? Why are the majority of middle-aged people behaving worse than their children?
I have lived away from Malta for many years and also have many friends from around the globe – I have never, with very few exceptions, witnessed such stupid behaviour among adults.
My name is H.P., and I’ve been off the Earl Grey for three months now.
If his children are so important to him, he should know better then to put them up for public scrutiny. He is a public figure, so he cannot escape it – though he needn’t court attention quite as much as he insists on doing – but his children would have been unknown to the general public had he not insisted on plastering their pictures all over his Facebook wall.
The best thing Mrs Jeffrey Pullicino II ever did was to pack and move out.
To his ego, that is catastrophic.
It’s a vote of no confidence in him. What goes round, comes around.
JEFF: A Tragi-Comedy in Five Acts
Instead of telling the world on Facebook that he is proud of his children, he should be acting to ensure that they are proud of him.
We’re his father and grandfather also called Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando? If not what’s this “III” crap?
I too was wondering what the III is. Maybe it’s his third reincarnation.
1. Nazzjonalist. 2. Laburist. 3. Mitluf.
Jeffrey has three Facebook accounts, because one is not enough for such a big ego. This one is number three.
What’s more is that he’s stating the obvious. Yes, Jeff, we know. All normal parents consider their children to be the most important thing in their lives. It’s human nature.
One doesn’t use “the most important things in their lives” as weapons to spite one’s ex.
A man his age stating publicly his feelings for his children is a plea for help.
I agree he is a creep (in Maltese veru ghim) but I honestly feel that this poor chap should be left in peace to sort out his messed-up self .
His divorce legislation has not affected me in the least.
I have no intention whatsoever of divorcing my wife of forty years.
Better the devil you know.