These issues will be/are being dealt with...but...I wouldn't call it a temporary setback geo.  It's going to take some time.  Mike's going to need some professional assistance here.  Then we'll see.  What will this do to his ability to find further employment moving forward?

Bell promotes this mental health campaign of theirs every year.  That said...we'll see if subsequent actions will measure up to their words.  Or... ... ...Is it all just for show?

Stories like this seem so insular and easy to judge when you don't know the person.   The most you have to go on are a few lines in a newspaper and you read it, roll your eyes, make a decision, and move on to the next story.  I do it all the time, and believe me, I'm not judging anyone else for doing exactly that.

But in this case I know, and like the subject of the story.  We worked together at XM and again off and on @ 1010.  As the article does suggest there are many issues at play here, some deeply emotional.   

This is where being in 'the public eye' sucks.  If it was just 2 'regular'  individuals they'd hopefully be able to resolve the issues between them privately, and serious personal issues can be addressed in an office, rather than on the front page of a newspaper.   People have difficulty going through these situations every day without having the added crushing pressure of public scrutiny and employment issues to deal with.   I'm guessing there are many of us, me included, who've gone through wrenching emotional breakups, but they were private and didn't involve 'investigative reporters' from the Star calling to find out more.  (Seems the only skeletons the Star is incapable of 'investigating' are their own.).  

I do understand that I'm a cog in the machine that causes the 'crushing public scrutiny'.  The irony of this post isn't lost on me.  As I said, it's easier when it's just another unknown person in a generic story.

I'm not suggesting it's not open for discussion but I wish it wasn't.  It's an incredibly difficult discussion to have, fairly,  with such limited information from both sides.

ig.

I agree with ig.  It's hard to live your life in a fish bowl.  Hopefully this gets resolved quickly to satisfaction of the two of them.

Hansa wrote:

Oh come on, if the cops knock on your door and warn you to stop doing something, you stop doing it. He's not some over excited 20 year old. 

It's a little more complicated than that. "Mental health issues" is in play. 
He'll most likely get some help and show up next on Bell's "Let's talk" day, letting us all know he's okay.
(I'm strictly guessing. This is not meant to be an attack on Mr. Bullard)
 

Yup.

The guy would deliver a painfully unfunny monologue joke on his show and unlike Carson or Letterman who would make fun of it Bullard would get visibly annoyed at the audience and explain the joke like they were the problem.  More than once when Orin Isaacs would miss a cue you got the sense that he was really going to hear about it.  I stopped watching because it got uncomfortable.  He seemed like a jerk not someone with an illness.

What purpose is served by all the stations and newspapers, to continuously identifying the female victim in this?

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Charlie wrote:

Centerline wrote:

What purpose is served by all the stations and newspapers, to continuously identifying the female victim in this?

Why not identify her?  She is the one pressing charges.  Bullard's name is all over the news.  Let them duke it out in court.  More and more, we are becoming a 'guilty until proven innocent' society.
 

Because already she's getting online harassment as a result.