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My girlfriend thought it was pathetic. “Did you read that,” she said, “on Instagram?” Marco Borsato declares his love to Leontine. She looked a bit swooning about it. As if it were the most romantic thing she’d known this year: an adulterous guy who tries to manipulate him back after years of cheating on him.
No chance
Pathetic? Yes, quite. That series of old photos too: Look how happy we once were. Made for each other, you can see that, right? I tried to imagine Leontine’s reaction when she read your post; the pressure she felt… Man, man, man, what are you doing to that poor person. First, bug her with anything wearing a skirt. And now that she has finally shouted, “Whoa, up here and no further,” you are not giving her any chance to rebuild a life without you.
Because that is what you do with that so-called Valentine’s post on Instagram: you block the way for Leontine to new happiness.
Hoop
My parents are divorced. For about 100 years or so. I am now too old to believe that they will ever get back together and live happily ever after. He has advanced Parkinson’s, she has been married to someone else for a long time now. That will never work again with that father-mother-child story. But do you know how long I kept hoping for that?
Divorced parents
We do that to children of divorced parents; we hope that the day will come when mum and dad suddenly realize that they are made for each other and that they will live happily ever after in a family that is no longer broken. Well, most of us are. Of course there are also children of fathers with loose hands who showed Mommy all over the room, but that’s a different story. My father didn’t and I’ve never seen a picture of Leontine with a black eye anywhere, so I have no reason to believe that your divorce was for any reason other than your adultery.
Day dream life
I don’t think your kids feel any different than I used to. After all, from a probably comfortably harmonious family, they suddenly ended up in the angry outside world where the whole world fell over their father because of what he had done to their mother. They will have to find their way in that. A sad mama, a papa who turned out not to be a hero. Day dream life. Then as a child you only want one thing: back to the way it was.
Your two eldest children stepped into the breach for you. That’s what children do, always loyally. “Don’t believe everything you read,” they posted on Instagram when it was announced in 2020 that you were getting a divorce and why. Hopeful: maybe it is all not true what they say.
Marco Borsato, his ex Leontine together with the children Senna, Luca and Jada
Ⓒ DUTCH HEIGHT
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They are now 22 (Luca), 19 (Senna) and 18 (Jada). Just like the rest of the Netherlands, they now know that it was true: Daddy cheated and Mommy was completely done with it. They have probably found a balance. Because that can be quite difficult as a child of divorced parents: you love both dearly and you absolutely do not want to lose weight. And gradually it will have descended: the way it was, will never come back.
And what does daddy do next: he declares love to mommy again. Publicly, in front of the nation (and the children). She can’t even pretend she hasn’t seen or heard it… Gone shaky balance. I see the hopeful heads before me: Would it all work out again between mom and dad. You see, he loves her. Mama, you still love him, don’t you?
And then she’s the bitch
Poor Leontine, she’s cheated at first and well, Marco, you know how to turn it in such a way that in fact she becomes the culprit for your divorce. After all, you tried to make it up to you? If she doesn’t go into that, she’s suddenly the bitch who put a bomb under your marriage instead of you. In the eyes of all those fans who do not want to believe that you have pissed outside the pot, but certainly also in the eyes of your children who after all just keep hoping for a good end.
Public display
I think it’s a pretty amicable trick of your Borsato. If you had sincerely wanted to save your relationship, you would have kept your declaration of love private. Who knows, it could all have been fine. But you didn’t, you turned it into a public display and involved the whole world. Including your children. As far as I am concerned, a sham, unfairly putting pressure on your ex-wife. Fortunately, she seems to be quite confident in her shoes. She herself sent out a more general declaration of love to all her ‘loved ones’. And as I understand it, his ex gave Borsato a box of chocolate as an answer to his sentimental video. Extra bitter?
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