Hi as a fan of Louis I'm always worried that I'm overstepping my boundaries when I get too concerned about him. I read a DM article talking about Lottie and her new bf and how Louis is worried about them and stuff. As we all know this family have carried a lot of burden. I have tears in my eyes thinking about how Lottie staged a drug scandal for Sun so that Fizzy(RIP) would not be in the spotlight. So all this new bf news worries. May be I'm over thinking I don't know.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to worry about Lottie. I don’t think that’s really overstepping boundaries, certainly not Louis’. I already wrote a post about how to make sure that worrying about her isn’t a form of aggression (which is this fandom’s speciality).
Everything about her relationship with Lewis Burton is a red flag (and that video! I don’t even have words for it). But the thing is lots of women are in bad relationships with shit guys in the early 20s. I wish the world wasn’t like that. I wish things were better for Lottie in so many ways. But I don’t think catastrophising is useful.
My two other thoughts are: Who gave the tabloids that story? I don’t think it was Louis’ team (which is a huge relief, because that would be a sign that things were very bad). It seemed like it came from Doncaster, but I can’t really see the twins or grandparents doing that. It’s always useful to think about sourcing.
Which leads to the fantasy scenario that I’ve been dreaming up these last couple of months. I was so sad that things seemed to be bad between Lottie and Lou T, that I decided to make up a scenario where they weren’t: this is all a revenge plot. (For this you do have to believe that Caroline was the wronged party in their relationship. I want to point out that this isn’t impossible. The police can get things horrifically wrong in domestic abuse cases and they are not trustworthy. Even from the reporting there were several things that made me wonder - particularly if neither party gave a full statement, which seemed to be the case)
It started with me idly noticing that there was a lot of coverage of their relationship, and none of it made him look good (something that hasn’t changed). And I was like - what if Lottie and Lou T were working together to try and avenge Caroline - and their lack of social media communication was to make all this convincing.
Now I don’t think this is true! But I use it as an example of how you can tell whatever stories you want about complete strangers and you can’t know the truth. So why not imagine scenarios that make you happy.