and I'm sure that's not the formal term for it, has been around as a recognized phenom of war zones for at least one hundred years (Gunter Grass famously wrote about the indiscriminate humping going on in the air raid shelters of German cities). The New Yorker wrote about it occurring during the Bosnian war. I'm not sure why it happens--but I bet psychologists have written something about it.

It's very weird though--I would imagine that sex would be the last thing on people's minds when under that much stress? Apparently not.

went into this "article". I agree with everything it says, it's just there's nothing particularly relevant or observant about it. I can restate the entire article in a sentence: LOLcats are wildly popular anthropormorphized cartoons. That's it. That's all there is.

Sometimes a dumb picture with an even dumber caption is just that, and nothing more. It's worth maybe a giggle, but a Salon article and an interviewer with a New Yorker editor? Give me a break.

And a LOLcats "bible"? FFS, some people must have empty lives.

and you were fucking with her gravy train. Of course she's mad.

Women like this are a variety of prostitute (as are a great many wives, perhaps most even). Of course any mention of prenup will send them into orbit.

It looks like she's got her multi-barb fishhooks pretty firmly embedded in your brother. I can only offer my condolences and suggest that you don't even appear to come bewtween them. With five kids on stepdaddy's teat you can expect this whore to fight like a demon to keep the wallet open. She will isolate him from his entire family if she gets half a chance; try not to let her.

Hope your brother comes through all right. And really, five kids? FIVE? Sheesh she sounds like a real piece of work. Ask your brother in private about an issue equally important as prenup: what's his backup method of birth control. He better not be touching this woman without putting on a double layer of condoms that she doesn't have access to. No keeping the condoms in the bedside table or bathroom where she can get in there and punch holes in them with a needle.

I'm deadly serious about that.

with no way to independently provide for them...hmm...why would anyone do that? It's at the very least incredibly poor judgement, but it's probably something more.

There's a reason she had those five kids, Tara.

A lot of messed up women have kids to try to hang on to guys. I'm very willing to bet that these five don't even have the same father. It may be an MO she has to try to get some security for herself. The brother of the LW needs to look out.

You don't have to know much psychology to know that what's on a woman's mind who came into a marriage towing five young children, who sorts through emails going back years and goes very, very ballistic at a mention of a prenup in a private correspondence--between brothers no less--that predates the marriage (!!!).

Controlling, is the word that springs to my mind. Controlling and interested in eliminating all threats to the lifelong gravy train she tried and failed to secure with the first five brats she brought into the world.

And you know what that makes her, Tara? A bitch and a whore. It's other women who need to say it loudest, since women like this give all us gals a bad name.

If she put half the energy into educating herself that she put into fucking and getting preggers, she'd be a PhD by now and a lot more deserving of respect. Apparently she has no esteem for herself, nor can she expect others to have any for her.

Gotta feel sorry for the kids, though.

the danger is very great that she will continue her MO by getting preggers by the LW's brother.

But ultimately, if she is this conniving and the brother doesn't want to see it, there's not much the LW can do except sit back and watch while she bleeds him dry. "A fool and his money are soon parted" and all that, although it is admittedly tiresome to watch aggressive, scheming, nasty people get what they want--it would be more satisfying if they took a fall, wouldn't it?

Codependent, passive people being manipulated by sociopaths are still adults at the end of the day, and have to make their own decisions.