Riding the Roller Coaster of My Housewife Opinions

As this season has progressed (Note: I'm not quite caught up), I'm realizing how much my opinions of the cast have changed over the years. I'm wondering if anyone else has found something similar. Caveat: I am not a perfect person, no one is. We all have good qualities and those we are, or need to, work on. These are just my thoughts based on the edited versions of the "characters."

Heather: I really liked her the first season. I related to her as a mom and found her life after leaving the church interesting. I respected that she seemed like a hard-working business woman and I appreciated her quick wit and sense of humor. Then she went all off the rails with all the Jen Shah, black-eye nonsense. I do like to play arm-chair psychiatrist and I could see how the blind loyalty and secret keeping were part of the damage from her Mormon upbringing, and she is learning to deprogram herself. But now her ego has gotten the better of her and she just seems angry and bitter.

Lisa: The first season I did not like her. She was conceited and self-centered. Then in subsequent seasons, I drank the Baby Gorgeous kool-aid and was happy to live in the self-delusional Lisa Barlow world where she didn't really care what others thought of her. But now she has taken it too far for me. The narcissism and inability to take any accountability for anything, ever, or to ever stop talking long enough to actually listen to anyone else, has me no longer on team Lisa.

Meredith: I initially found her sophisticated, smart and interesting, sort of like the appeal of LVP for me in the early days of RHOBH. But just like the glitter wore off of LVP for me, Meredith began to show her true colors. Her insinuations, and insisting that the threats of talking about "something" isn't the same as talking about it, is manipulative and disingenuous. Like LVP, she's the "sniper from the side." She thinks she's so much smarter than everyone else and uses her education as a weapon. But this season, she seems much more calm and I'm starting to like her again.

Whitney: Her immaturity was not appealing to me as a character, but she didn't bother me so much one way or the other. When the SA storyline came out, her immaturity made sense. Again, the arm-chair psychiatrist in me could appreciate how her emotional maturity was stunted because of the SA, and I can see growth and maturity in her this season, which I find interesting to watch.

Mary: Oh, Mary. First season she was just an enigma to me. Quirky, such an interesting back story, outspoken. Then she totally lost me with her outbursts, rudeness, meanness, and refusal to participate in the group activities. But now this season, she seems to have grown and her caring side is showing more.