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starving to death every single day, it's hard to feel even a little bit of empathy for someone shedding tears over having to live "a little less rich". Most of us who have to work-and work hard-to simply make our way, with little left over for luxuries or even to save, have a hard time feeling sorry for a woman who is bemoaning the fact that she isn't getting a chunk of money she didn't earn in the first place.

Tricia seems to believe that marriage to an old, sexless crone is deserving of some pay and compensation; paychecks for the time she's put in, paid in full, and severance pay, thank you very much. And, oh!, the horrid things the "poor vulnerable Tricia" (as the yellow text on her video claims she is) has had to endure! She gleefully regales the camera, and Mr. Smith's poor assistant, with his lack of desire to copulate with her and her later discovery of his stash of "Viagra, con-doms, and porn tapes". She claims she was "an 'effin idiot" for believing that he could not have sex-as he told her-due to his high-blood pressure" and states the couple have never consummated the marriage.

Which leads me to one part of the video that bothered me more than the lunatic rantings of a googly-eyed nut; was putting the assistant on the spot like that really necessary? Tricia calls the woman up-in the middle of a work day, mind you-and starts blathering on about she and her husband's sexless marriage. She then decides to tell this young woman about his stash of "Viagra, con-doms, and porn tapes" and insists the assistant go and ask him-right now-what she should do with his con-doms. You know, because every assistant gets paid enough money to put up with crazy phone calls during work from her boss's wife. That was so uncalled for and shows you just how much Tricia really cares about anyone but herself - in other words, not at all.

Tricia claims, in the interview I saw, that she was "nice" with the video and simply told of her plight. I don't call showing a photo of your stepdaughter to the world and calling her a "bad, bad, bad person" very "nice"; but maybe that's just me. I also don't call harassing your husband's staff while they're trying to do their jobs very "nice" either; but again, maybe that's just me. I sure don't believe airing your family's personal and private affairs for the world to see is very "nice"; but...well you get the idea.

When it comes down to it, Tricia is just another self-absorbed, whiny, spoiled, rich, trophy wife who believes she's getting shunted out of money she feels is well-deserved and hard-earned. When she felt no other avenue was left open to her, she decided to air her and her husband's private affairs to the world at large - throwing a pouty, teary-eyed temper tantrum while showing off all that she would be losing; all the while expecting us to feel sorry for her and someone to step up and rescue her from the "mean, bad husband".

What she fails to realize is that from outside of the small, elite world that she exists in, the majority of us don't truly care about her or her "life and death situation". There are people in the world with real needs and who are experiencing true suffering. In light of that, it's hard to feel anything but disdain for someone like Tricia Walsh Smith; a woman who wants very much for doing very little and is upset she can't get it.

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