This is the correct answer. She used Walt's criminal activities and the safety of Walt Jr. as the complaint for her losing power

We didn't grow to hate Skylar, in fact the show tried very hard to make her sympathetic as time went on. But she was horrible from the beginning. Walt was a giant pussy and she belittled him. Walt didn't change because of money but power and she resented the fact she could no longer walk all over him. Their whole dynamic is not about the money or drugs but a simple power play.

Once Walt became Heisenberg she felt powerless. She was a controlling despot in the home and as much desirable of power and control as Walt. Her way of power was their relationship and the household, Walt's was through meth selling and the typical male way, making money.

So she not only was a hypocrite but emasculated him and she revelled in it. When Walt was no longer the pushover, she not only couldn't handle it but lost her love for him. She married and wanted the guy who walked away from Gray Matter. She never stood by her man unless he was weak.

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Posted by bcoop199

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Posted on 2/4/21 at 2:58 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

She was a bitch from the get go.

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Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 2/4/21 at 10:47 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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But she was horrible from the beginning. Walt was a giant pussy and she belittled him.

Her stupid a-hole husband refused to take a job with his ex partners that would have paid for his cancer treatment and pushed their family up into a much higher tax bracket. With them having two kids, one disabled, and another on the way that was an inexcusable thing for him to do. Instead he preferred to sit around for over a decade feeling sorry for himself wasting his talent as a high school chem teacher b/c his ego couldn't handle that he fricked up a huge opportunity when he was younger. He deserved to get belittled. He was a massive titty baby.

That's all before he gets involved in making meth, joins a cartel that murders people, hires on scum that kills a kid, kills people directly himself, gets Jesse involved which gets his friends killed and causes him to become a slave, gets his brother in law and other law enforcement officers killed, and acts like a total douche to everyone he knows.

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Posted by keks tadpole

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Posted on 4/23/21 at 11:20 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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So she not only was a hypocrite but emasculated him and she revelled in it. When Walt was no longer the pushover, she not only couldn't handle it but lost her love for him. She married and wanted the guy who walked away from Gray Matter. She never stood by her man unless he was weak.

So she shows Walt, who appears exhausted from is work, the fruits of his labor and begs him to quit, and go back to being old Walt so she can be the boss, if only for a short time until Walt dies. That chain of events IMO led to the demise and the unfortunate incidents that befell others.
She should have kept he mouth shut for what would have been another six months.

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Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 4/23/21 at 3:39 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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This is the correct answer. She used Walt's criminal activities and the safety of Walt Jr. as the complaint for her losing power

We didn't grow to hate Skylar, in fact the show tried very hard to make her sympathetic as time went on. But she was horrible from the beginning. Walt was a giant pussy and she belittled him. Walt didn't change because of money but power and she resented the fact she could no longer walk all over him. Their whole dynamic is not about the money or drugs but a simple power play.

Once Walt became Heisenberg she felt powerless. She was a controlling despot in the home and as much desirable of power and control as Walt. Her way of power was their relationship and the household, Walt's was through meth selling and the typical male way, making money.

So she not only was a hypocrite but emasculated him and she revelled in it. When Walt was no longer the pushover, she not only couldn't handle it but lost her love for him. She married and wanted the guy who walked away from Gray Matter. She never stood by her man unless he was weak.

I think Vince Gilligan is the kind of weak person that thinks he's writing her as a strong woman.
If he's married, his relationship is probably like that, or even worse, his parents were like that.