I mean for all intensive purposes she moved on so he did too.
It's INTENTS AND PURPOSES. Omg, I have death in my soul.
What's an 'intensive' purpose, anyway?
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Posters in this thread are discussing how they could skate shows together even while living six hours away from each other. While that isn't explicitly saying that this is what they should do, why would anyone mention it unless it was thought to be desirable?
It's because Eric said that the reason he first approached Vanessa was that he wanted to skate in shows with her (and not Meagan). People then were coming up with reasons why skating with Meagan in shows was just impossible and others are pointing out that this is dumb.
I guess we won't ever know, but I have a feeling Duhamel wouldn't have taken it well whatever way Radford told her he was ending their partnership.
I think she would have been fine if he had said that he didn't want to skate anymore to concentrate on something else (like his music career). She may not have liked it, but people move on from skating, even in shows, as they get older, and taking about betrayal in public over such a situation would have garnered a much different reaction.
As for pushing a narrative, isn’t that exactly what you’re doing? I did read Eric’s reasoning in the Smith article and it all makes sense to me. I don’t blame him one bit. He has a living to make and a future to figure out. He was hedging his bets until he knew for sure the French Fed would release her.
It doesn't make sense to me because even if Meagan decides to have another child, we are talking about maybe 6 months of one year that they can't tour tops. Out of years of show skating. And that assumes she doesn't wait to have a second child until they are both done with show skating. Or times it perfectly to miss the show skating season.
It is very unusual for a team that has made a name for themselves by winning at the highest level to break up to skate with someone else
for shows. Yes, I know people can name 1 or 2 teams that have done it. But we can name hundreds who haven't.
You get paid to be in a show based on the pull you have. A two-time World Championship team is going to sell more tickets and so get paid more. Even if this new partnership is wildly successful to the point where they get to the Olympics and possibly even medal in the team event, they are not going to have the credentials of the old partnerships.
James has no choice. Her old partnership is poison. But Radford did. So his thinking completely mystifies me (and makes me think something else is going on).
Of course, the decision to skate competitively does change things. But that was not the original plan according to him.
Did he really think it wouldn't all come out? Was he setting her up to look bad, knowing she'd be likely to be angry after it did come out, and knowing her well enough to bet that she'd go public and people would be saying she should have kept it private, while he told everyone she was fine with it?
Yes.
Obviously, I don't know him but I would say from every situation like this that I've been in or seen from the outside, the person hiding things really does think that it won't come out.
Navka also had a baby during her competitive career, and Barbara Fusar-Poli before her comeback. The suggestion that a woman would have a hard time doing shows after starting a family is just 
