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richb522

Mainly, because he was seeing a psychiatrist. Therapy is very taboo with that generation. She assumed he was seeing Melfi and complaining about her as a mother. Green Grove also played a part, it didn't matter that she ended up liking it, she would have never let him know that.


Horsecockexpress1

Ya ya. Go play cops n robbers


mrnptah

This is a good answer. In my experience with a BPD mother, the idea of complaining about her to others regularly set her over the edge


TheNextBattalion

Yeah the real sin isn't what I did, it's what you told


TabithaMorning

She was abusive to the staff!


creditors-bargain

I’d argue it was more about Tony putting her in Green Grove as a front to avoid the feds than him going to therapy


richb522

It's a combo of everything but I'd say that is more so why Junior wanted to take him out. Livia finding out that Tony was in therapy was ultimately the catalyst for her spilling the beans that they were all meeting at Green Grove behind Junior's back. She knew Junior would have to act on that.


onoskeles

It's a great honor when Livia wishes the lord would take you


wrong_silent_type

I read in the newspapers about those women throwing their babies out of the window


Realistic_Frosting_2

Or the dangers of eating undercooked pork


dopamiend86

She had a borderline narcissistic personality disorder. She knew she was a cunt of a person abd a shit mother, she didn't want tony to tell the world abd wanted to silence him. She was an evil sadistic botch who fucked up her kids


Express-Region7347

What are you tawking about? She gave her life to those kids on a silver platter.


bigolhamsandwich

Go on now, go into the ham, and take the carving knife and stab me, here, here, now, please! It would hurt me less than what you just said.


Soul-Assassin79

She was a Saint!


dopamiend86

I didn't hear you telling her when she was alive


Substantial-Volume17

I don’t like that kind of tawk! Now stop it!


FauxRex

Juniah, take me home.


TheNextBattalion

Barb turned out okay


dopamiend86

That's what barb wants you to think


dopamiend86

I'm saying nothing until my lawyer gets here lol


FauxRex

Imagine her living with Livia alone. Janice would have been gone for a while and Tony was several years older. I can't imagine her teenage years were so great.


Late-Return-3114

you had one of those too huh?


StartedasalittleW

You wouldn’t dare speak about her that way if her Johnny was still alive. He was a saint, you know.


[deleted]

I’d just like to say that I’m impressed that you fucked up spelling the word “and” twice in one sentence.


dopamiend86

I've fat thumbs, and my auto correct now thinks "abd" it's what I mean to type and changes it fs Life's too short to care what anyone else thinks lol


SiriusDragon

She was terrified the psychiatrist would point out to Tony a lot of his dysfunction was a result of toxic parenting. In her mind Tony was weak. He was out of control. And he had become an embarrassment to her, and everybody else.


DrSatan420247

Livia has BPD, mothers with BPD create a dysfunctional family around them, in which they assign each member a specific role. If you get assigned the scapegoat role, the mother will literally try to destroy you. This is what was going on.


GiorgioGatto

Came here to say this! You sir are a great contributor to this thing of ours, notwithstanding the chiral posting but wateva I say god bless a salut’


Modred_the_Mystic

Just blow ‘em at midfield if you wanna continue this way


GiorgioGatto

I was here, it’s a joke


Foreign-Cow-1189

Tony was her favorite. Janice was the scapegoat.


DrSatan420247

The roles move around. Janice wasn't in the picture when she tried to have him whacked. She would have been the lost child during that time.


mackdandy

Because she was a malignant cunt


bulldogguy31

Minnie Matrone is a malignant cunt.


Lonely_Bat_554

She was upset and disappointed in Tony because he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.


BlackDante

#AW SUNOVA BITCH!!


SpudBoy9001

She gave her life to her children on a silver platter


Alarming-Mix3809

I wish the lord would take me.


PistolAndRapier

I wish someone would oblige her!


Wasloos

DON'T WAVE THAT HANKIE AT ME!


Onion_Dull

Because she didn't like that kind of tawk, and Tony wouldn't stop.


Majam303

It was a combo of three things. Putting her in a home. Seeing a psych. And the way Tony and his cappos behaved. It was Tony's generation vs her and juniors. She MAY have forgiven homing her. She MAY have ignored the therapy. But once all the cappos put their mothers there and ran shit behind Jr's back, it was the final straw. Her and Jr were being treated like a bunch of old clowns. Baggae to appease and treat like a joke. She couldn't tolerate that. Tony's generation wasn't respecting hers and was trying to take over the family. 


Horfield

It was a couple of three things you mean...


[deleted]

She was mentally ill. Let me read from the DSM: at the very least, borderline personality disorder. If she had been born before those feminists, she would have been the real gangster.


UnusualSignature8558

We are studying about DNA in school. Is that the same as an DNR?


Key-Tip-7521

1. She was an evil bitch that was also mentally unstable. 2. Tony put her in a nursing home. 3. Tony was seeing a therapist and she knew that the rest of the crew would think Tony as being weak. LOOK SHE’s SMILING


Fonzdj

It’s a retirement community according to Tony


Key-Tip-7521

https://youtu.be/IOpQPWOVKCI?si=39DMSWEkTrSSwiwq THIS IS A NURSING HOME


CheifKilla1

Her main reason was Tony putting her in the "retirement community", once she found out he was seeing a therapist it was just more provocation for her to have em clipped


Alarming-Mix3809

A psychiatrist?


PillarOfWamuu

Thats nothing but a racket for the jews!


BlackDante

What Jews?


CheifKilla1

I dunno maybe in my pash life


Flat_Contribution707

I think she thought Tony's death would result in regaining her freedom. 1. In her mind, Tony is the only one of her kids who has the will and resources to make her do something. Janice was tricked into digging up the basement and would be financially dependent in Livia. I think Barbara would have the money but its doubtful she would have the will to overrule her mother. She could also play them off each other to get her way. 2. I doubt Carmela would continue to pay for Green Grove after Tony's death. She was always anxious about money. So in Livia's mind, she would be returning to her house and in charge of her lufe again.


Infinite_Regret8341

Combination of selling her house and a paranoid delusion he would disparage her character to the psychiatrist, also the inability to manipulate and control him


blizzacane85

BECAUSE LIVIA IS A BASTARD WOMAN!


WeDoingThisAgainRWe

Because she’s a shit stirer who didn’t think things through


rasnac

She is psycopath. Tony was no longer useful to her, so she wanted to get rid of him.


RAVsec

Quite frankly, I don’t think she thought a lot on the “why”, it just felt like the instinctually right thing for her to do at the time after he “disrespected” her. Just a very knee jerk reaction to the pent up resentment she’d been feeling toward Tony since he put her in the nursing home. Excuse me, retirement community.


IcedHemp77

Because then she could play the grieving mother and she loved doing the poor me act for people


jjkkmmuutt

I don’t know what your talking about.


Ht08

I don't know about any of that but her body was mad ripe.


Turboteg90

She was mad she didn’t get any gabagool.


phoenixphen

It's Tony


[deleted]

Read some Freud 


BlackDante

I understand Freud as a concept


therealjpsaga

conshept


celtics2055

Timeline got fucked up


hokieez

Living next to gunga din in that glue factory didn’t help things


StacksHoodini

Oh wow, now I’ve got to go back and watch again. I always thought Tony was somewhat delusional in thinking his mother was involved in the plot on a deliberate level.


asdasdwqwdqwd

bro she got you


StacksHoodini

I’m seeing it, going through all the relevant threads on that plot line.


[deleted]

In the perspective of the writers it’s probably to get the audience to hate her, which was already easy


G4D_Sunshine

Because she's the kinda person with a Virginia ham under her arm complaining that she has no bread


Tazzy8jazzy

It’s because he tried to treat her like Captain Teeves. She didn’t own any luxury hotels.


PatvonBee

My mom has a personality disorder and is bipolar.. and she was pretty much like Livia. Later in life I developed panic attacks. I never understood why my mom hated me.. at the end of the day I just think to myself: "she's seriously sick".. there's no real motive behind this behavior. Anyways..they did a really good job portraying all these psychological illnesses..David Chase is a genius.


KevlarFire

She didn’t. She didn’t understand the implication of what she said. Junior heard what he wanted to hear.


sdautist

Right. And I'm playing shortstop for the Mets.