âmy mother was a brilliant woman, always accomplished and always right, whoâs better to trust than her?â yes because why WOULD you want to believe the person who kept you stable in every other way but emotionally and mentally your entire life wanted anything but the best for you? or so you thoughtâĻchildren want stability. even though sheâs EXTREMELY emotionally abusive and controlling as all hell, she did provide in other ways in terms of education, food, shelter, etc. itâs so hard with these kinds of abusersâĻhyper competent, clean slate, intelligent, providersâĻi understand why riddle has so much trouble believing anything but her way is the right wayâĻshe has everything under her belt to make him believe she WOULD want the best for himâĻbut it completely cracks him coming to terms with the fact she was actually horrible and abusive. despite the events shown, i believe 98% of the time, her abuse is HIGHLY underhanded but those specific memories REALLY stuck in his brain of her yelling and getting physically abusive.