Teresa and every other woman on the show - Real Housewives of New Jersey

Ah these are a psychologically dysfunctional bunch of ladies. While Danielle Staub is a very dramatic and insecure woman, the most dysfunctional of the lot are certainly Teresa, Jacqueline and Caroline (in that order).


Teresa has some very serious rage issues, bordering on a personality disorder. She snaps at the slightest provocation which gives her that appearance of being "trashy". She needs to seek serious help before she is sued by someone for assault.


Jacqueline, on the other hand, is the typical insecure follower. She has no personality of her own. She has fallen into her husband's family and adopted their personas, then she followed around Danielle and when that wasn't getting her the kind of attention she craved (and more people were against the side she was on than were on it) she switched over to follow Teresa and her sister-in-law. When she did that, gone was the gentle persona she had adopted previously and in its stead came Teresa number two. An almost exact replica of a swearing, aggressive, catty woman. Everything she does screams 'blank slate waiting to be filled by substance'. When she realized that people did not like Teresa's trashy ways, she went back to being gentle halfway through the reunion to hug Danielle and make peace.


The problem with both ladies is that they are passing their unhealthy behavior on to their daughters. In Teresa's case, her daughter's are already displaying signs of aggression and being massively spoiled (which will do them no favors in the world, especially if they have to humble themselves to work one day). In Jacqueline's case, she sent incredibly mixed messages to her impressionable teenage daughter. She made fun of, mocked and was cruel, cold and aggressive towards a woman who had not done much to her, and then was surprised to find that her young daughter had taken it one step further in an all-out brawl started by herself and Teresa. Rather than taking responsibility for her part in this, she simply wrote off her daughter's behavior and scolded her (unfortunately 'do as I say, not as I do' and 'because I said so' are very poor parenting techniques and it shows in the girls subsequent behavior).