#i am a tyler and hernandez family enthusiast

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Does Marianna have a job? If so what sort of job does she have? I don't know if she would work because she seems very easily triggered by the mention of her husband's death and her co-workers or supervisors would probably ask after her and her family and she obviously copes by repressing and denying the fact that Ethan was dead so that wouldn't go over very well. But that's dependent on when she began to deny that her husband was dead...

Do you think she wasn't going to work for so long that Taylor and Tyler started to go hungry (based on those panels in Chapter 48)? Do you think Tyler scrounged for food in the fridge and pantry for so long, naively hoping that one day his mom would wake up and be herself again? Do you think that one day Marianna woke up in the morning and got ready for work and Tyler could finally feel the weight lifting off his shoulder for a moment before his mom turned to him with the brightest smile she's had on her face since his dad got sick and asked if Ethan had gone to work before her and it all came crashing down? Do you think that he could only stare at her bright smile and the lively look in her eyes and swallow the guilt that suffocated him as he lied to her for the first of many times to come because he knew that it was the only way to survive and stay together as a family? Do you think he took care of all the household chores Ethan used to cover to keep up the ruse? Do you think he learned to cook just like his dad, even if he didn't really know how to use a knife or use the stove and sometimes burned or cut himself, lying to Marianna about where he got the injuries from?

How many times do you think he and Taylor lied to Marianna about Ethan's whereabouts, even as their guilt and grief grew heavier with every lie? But what else could they do? They were only kids and had no close family that was willing to support them. It was the only way that they could all stay together and protect one another.