Mette-Marit - NEWS

[Emac0914]

I am by no means defending MM and Haakon but Marius is a grown man with mental health issues.  If an adult is determined to live a certain lifestyle (drugs, physical and mental abuse of people around him), most parents cannot control that, even by cutting his income and support off.  I say that from experience with 2 kids, both adults now and still dealing with mental health issues.  Tough love sometimes works, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment can help but the person has to have their mind made up that they want to get help and get things under control.  I think Marius has a dangerous mind and he obviously wants to live this lifestyle, has enablers around him.  His parents love him and it’s very hard to turn your back when this type of thing is going on.  Tough that it’s the NRF, played out in the public eye enough.  Are MM and Haakon good or bad parents - hard to say since we may not have the full story and the media loves to sensationalize things like this.  So very sad all the way around.

[Maria]

By his own account - which might be lies of course but it fits with how he has lived - he has learning and mental health issues that would absolutely have been within MM’s sphere of responsibility when he was younger. This pattern with very inappropriate friends and drug use has also seemingly gone on for quite a while. MM and Haakon could absolutely have done something more constructive and more good and healthy for Marius than have him continue an easy life as if nothing was wrong. That’s definitely on MM. What parent would not want their child to be sober, not use drugs, be independent and certainly not hang out with hardened criminals and become one himself?

Marius did not grow up in a vacuum. I doubt he’s a psychopath. This kind of behaviour escalates from dumb choices - and that’s where his parents should have stepped in.