"Is this a trick question? Plan "A"- Go for it and leave town. Plan "B"- Go for it and ......, I hear plastic crinkling!?..... AHHHHHHHH

But, really now, It would be better to have loved and be sliced and diced than never to have loved at all. I’ve heard this saying so many times before.
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"I respectfully disagree with a few things. Maybe I hang around with too many women but Rita is extremely patient and mild around Dexter. And she's not in the show enough to be a big bother. But I guess I also don't see the whining that others see. Like I said, too much experience with REAL whiney women. I didn't see Dexter pay a high price for his affair with Lila. It was quite the opposite. Rita was OVERLY forgiving. Considering that Rita thinks she's in a real relationship, Dexter really got off easy. Different strokes for different folks. I just don't se"

"He was truthful in the fact that he had an addiction, but led her to believe it was to drugs. I don't think that she ever found out any differently. She made him go to meetings or she was gonna break up with him. Then he ended up using those as a cover for Doakes. And, met Lila."

"I don't think Rita ever found out that Dex misleading her about his addiction. She told Sylvia the other day that Dexter used drugs."

"What was that business with the engagement ring if not whiny and passive aggressive? What was that business with the house-hunting if not manipulative, and indirect? I actually thing the actress is wonderful. I just don't care much for the character. I think it's an excellent notion to have a person who helps Dexter become more "human." It makes for good drama. I don't care for Rita's baby voice. When she talks with passion about her kids, or that talking to she gave Miguel, she doesn't talk in the baby girl voice. I like her then. Maybe once she's out of the early pregnancy stage, she'll be less kvetchy and girly, more strong. I look forward to that."

"I can't believe the finale is here and Rita's probably logged about 5 minutes total in the entire season. One whole season set back for her because I guess Deb and Anton were more important. I'm sorry for Deb fans but she's finally getting to me. Enough with Anton. Okay that's all. It just stinks because certain people were overdeveloped and others were underdeveloped. Rita and the kids should have been a huge part of the season. It seems like the kids have been strangely absent this year. Rita too. If this show only goes to 5 seasons, they are going to have to pick up the pace a little here. And really start balancing the cast out more. There should be time for all characters. That's my rant. How much you wanna bet Rita will still be in her first trimester next season? I want to see this baby and still have time for aftermath and stuff. At this pace, Rita will be giving birth by early season 5. It seems like these types of show last 5 or 6 years tops."

"I'm definitely not holding my breath. Seems like the drama will be pretty constant. Of course, you'd think the whole Lila/Doaks thing would have taken forever but it didn't. There is some hope. I know Rita's not the main character but she deserves a decent wedding episode. I don't want to see the wedding at the very end either but that will likely be the case. Not a good time to be a Rita fan. "

"Mike, I hope you will take the following in the spirit in which I intend it; that is, in a spirit of cordial disagreement. I am a woman. It is bizarre, to say the least, to be "instructed" in the ways of women by a man (e.g., "Women can be mysterious. They think one way and act out another.") You like Rita, the character and Julie Benz, the actress. I like Julie Benz a lot! I don't like Rita. Before Rita was pregnant, she "acted out" (to use your phrasing) in ways that can arguably be described as passive aggressive. I've never been a fan of that style dealing with other people. I KNOW it's a part of the character, who is a fiction after all. I just don't like it.

I want Rita and Dexter to work as a couple. It makes the show that much more textured and interesting. I just want Rita to develop (!) away from her current persona, which gets under my skin like a burrowing worm. As to her voice being her voice, the tone and timbre and pitch vary when she is putting her mother in her place; when she is telling off Miguel, etc. When she talks in that baby girl voice, she sounds less mature than Astor.

Aside: I know quite a number of women who love the show and (to put it mildly) don't care for Rita. Our reasons vary, but there it is."

"Someone is going through my posts and marking them not valuable."