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Is there a difference, you may wonder! During the first six months of being dumped, I believe there is an insanity that happens to most people, especially if there is foul play involved. That insanity can cause otherwise somewhat sane people to do insane things. Once you come out of CrazyLand, you’ll want to have a life to get on with, so it’s important not to make big decisions during that first six months, or maybe even the first year.

Tricia Walsh-Smith is the woman who used YouTube to air her divorce grievances. She’s 49 years old, not the best time to be starting over, but then again, certainly not the worst. She seems to have a lot going for her and a life to get on with living.

As you know, I’ve used the Internet to share my story and it’s certainly been a mixed bag. I was careful to make sure that the characters in my own story remained anonymous, but in spite of my efforts to spare the guilty, my ex and his companion jumped up and down on their own websites, yelling “hey,over here, it’s us she’s talking about”, making me think I must have portrayed them much too kindly.

Tricia Walsh-Smith is not bothering to spare anyone’s feelings. She’s pretty pissed off and she’s using YouTube as a way to inflict insult and injury upon her husband, Philip Smith and his family, in particular his daughter, the one she calls the “nasty, evil step-daughter”.

I don’t know what she expects to gain from this, but I think she’s made a mistake. Perhaps she was a nice woman before all this, but there’s not much evidence of it in the video. She doesn’t mention having loved her husband. She talks of money and possessions, so I think it’s her wallet that’s been broken, not her heart.

The Internet Movie Database shows that she has been married to Philip Smith, who is 25 years her senior, since 1999. She has one son, but presumably not by Mr. Smith, since there was no sex in the relationship, well, not mutual sex. Mr. Smith allegedly possessed condoms, Viagra and a porno movie collection.

The video could have been better, considering that she is an actress and a writer. The Tarot cards in the beginning of the video seem out of place and lose her some credibility. So, what’s the verdict? Scorned woman acting crazy out of heartbreak, or conniving gold digger, pissed off at how the finances played out? At the very least, I think that Philip Smith now has grounds for divorce.

More Tricia here.