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Aunt Olivia (Jess and Tyler scene (Who?------Jess and Tyler Emmerson who…

- - - - Three years ago, Jess decided to leave her home of Houston to go to LA to build a life with her husband and finish her studies at UCLA. Marissa, who was feeling abandoned, wanted Jess to stay in Houston. Since Jess choose to go anway, Marissa has since build a resentment towards her.
        
        Marissa has battled abandonment issues since her parents died in a plane crash when she was 7 and was sent to live with her Aunt Olivia, her dad's sister, until Mary, her maternal grandmother. Mary, because Mary thought that Olivia's alcohol addiction made her unfit to raise Marissa. So everytime someone close to her makes life changes that didn't include her, such as Jess, then Marissa builds a resentment towards them.
        
        Because of her resentment towards Jess, Marissa missed the birth of her nieces, even though Jess would've loved to have her there.
        
        Question for Writer: What excuse, if any, did Marissa give Jess for the birth of Anaya and Angela?
        
        Answer: When jess called Marissa (because Marissa won't dare pick up the phone can call Jess) the week of her due date, Jess told Marissa that she would love for her to be there while she's giving birth to her twin girls, but Marissa told Jess that Mary wasn't doing so well so it's best if Marissa stays nearby in case something happens. truth was, that Mary was perfectly fine, and Marissa just didn't want to be there, her reason being that since jess abandoned her, then he will abandon jess.
        
        Question for Writer: Why didn't Jess suggest that Marissa come to LA with her and Tyler? Or What if Jess did suggest that Marissa come with them, but Marissa declined. If so, why?
        
        Answer: Jess suggested to Marissa that Marissa could come live with her and Tyler in LA so they won't miss each other, but Marissa chose to stay to help Scarlet care for Mary, who was just plagued with eyesight problems. Marissa, who was being stubborn, thought that Jess should just stay in Houston. When Jess decided to leave for LA anyway, Marissa felt that Jess abandoned her during a difficult time, so she has harbored resentment towards her for years.
- - - - Marissa volunteered with children at a local daycare until she quit because of Mary's passing.
      - Ever since the passing of mary, Marissa has been displaying a serious of unhealthy and destructive behaviors such as quitting her volunteer work and breaking up with her boyfriend at the time and even vandalizing Alyssa's car. All of this lead to Marissa attempting suicide by mixing pills and alcohol. Had Alyssa not found her passed out on the floor, Marissa would've died.
        
        Marissa's original reasoning for swallowing the pills and alcohol was that she was having trouble sleeping. She reveals to Olivia in a later chapter that she did it because she felt like no one needed her. Jess and Alyssa were living lives that didn't involve her, the guy she loved chose to rekindle a life that didn't involve her, and Scarlet always had her own thing going on. The only person who made her feel like her presence was important was Mary, and now with Mary gone, Marissa feels like she no longer matters.
    - - 9 months prior, Olivia was out to lunch with her AA sponsor Nancy when she saw Sandie, a puppy then get run over by a car. Going to her rescue, she got the dog and took it to get medical attention at the local shelter. Outside of Sandie losing one of her legs, she was fine. Olivia took her home, adopted her, and named her Sandie. They've been inseparable ever since. Sandie makes Olivia feel less lonely.
        
        It takes time for Marissa to warm up to Sandie because of her past with dogs.
        
        When Marissa was in the 10th grade, Mary got Marissa a white lab, whom she named Casper because he reminded her of the friendly ghost. But when she turned 21, Casper's health took a saddening turn and he was diagnosed with cancer. Since Marissa didn't want him to suffer any more than he had to, she opted to have him put down. Ever since then, Marissa thought it was best for her not to get close to another dog.
  - - - Question for Writer: Why didn't Alyssa offer to take Marissa to New York with their family?
        
        Answer: Since Alyssa is moving with her family to New York, Alyssa needs to focus on the move, getting her son into a school there, making the transition from the different states and try to maintain a healthy pregnancy in the process, so she won't have the time to focus on Marissa's needs.
      - Scarlet married Mary's nephew Tom, who later died in a car crash a year after their nuptials. Mary took Scarlet in and she became like family and helped Mary raise Marissa. She left for her home in the Philipines because her mother fell ill.
        
        Question for Writer: Why didn't Scarlet offer to take Marissa to the Philippines?
        
        Answer: Scarlet has to focus on taking care of her mother, so she won't be able to cater to Marissa's needs.
- - - - A note for later: It is at this wedding where Olivia meets Scott, a handsome friend of Nancy. Nancy have known him since high school and has been like a brother to Nancy. He was instrumental in Nancy getting into AA.
        
        Another note for later: Olivia is on a date with Scott at her home when Trevor, Olivia's ex, comes over and starts trouble, resulting in Marissa taking a gold club to Trevor's windshield.
        This happens because in Chapter 3, Olivia runs into Wendy, an ex-friend of hers, at the super market. Wendy and her were friends, and Wendy introduced Olivia to Trevor and some time after Trevor and Olivia broke up due to Trevor's infidelity, manipulation, and emotional abuse, he started dating Wendy, who thought she was going to be treated differently. Wendy is currently pregnant Trevor's fifth baby, but they're only dating after 17 years, not married or engaged. When Olivia runs her mouth to Wendy about how pathetic it is that Wendy is still with Trevor, Wendy tells Trevor days after the contact, and in turn, Trevor's goes to Olivia's beach house raising hell.
        
        "Olivia, you're relationship with Trevor was over fifteen years ago, you should be over that by now. It's almost pathetic that you still hold on to it. It is not Trevor's fault that you destroyed your life."------Wendy
        "Pathetic? Who's the one at home all the time, raising the children of the man who claims to her and yet won't give her the proper satisfaction of being called his wife, all because he's not ready for marriage after seventeen years of dating? Maybe I'm the pathetic one after all."
        
        Wendy Brown
        
        Trevor Davis
- - - - "It's easy for someone to say "Get over it" when they don't realize how much something has destroyed a person. That's what everyone told her about Trevor, that she should get over him. It was easy for everyone to say that because they didn't get treated by him the way he treated her. 'Talk to me when you're told you're nothing by the same pair of lips that once held love for you,' she would tell them when they gave her that line. Wendy was the worse. because she was mutual friends with both of them, she tried not to take sides, but obviously Wendy sided with Trevor because Wendy was dating Trevor three months later, her reasoning, 'Just because he treated Olivia that way, doesn't mean he was gonna treat her that way.'"
      - Her break up with Trevor started her drinking because she used to drink to settle her nerves while she was dating him, and then she drank more to soothe her broken heart as well as her angry resentment she felt towards him.