I don't see wife's lies, hypocrisy, and betrayals as the important part of this story. The important part is her struggle to make sense of her life, and how she is likely to fail at that. Tragedy in the ancient Greek sense.
What I see here, is you guys repeatedly dumping on wife right now. I don't know what you have said in the past, and I don't think it excuses the dumping now.
Just because a person wants to ignore an important part of a story, does not mean it is not an important part of the story. The story is titled, "My Husband's Boss" and it is about a wife cheating on her husband WITH HIS BOSS, but you feel her lies, betrayals, and hypocrisy are not important parts of the story. So the primary source of drama and conflict aren't important to the story according to you. That does not make any sense, but it is clear that this is what you are saying.
Your previous comments on some of my posts are what prompted me to make some of my recent posts about Vivian because your posts, in my opinion, seemed to justify Christian's abusive behavior of Vivian. You were basically saying that his mistreating her was not abuse, and that it was a good thing. Below is a screenshot of your reply to one of my posts.
In my post above, which only a small portion was quoted in your reply, I detailed how Christian was abusing and degrading Vivian, which I also said that I was against. You wrote in your reply to my post, " Wife might very well have the perspective to not consider herself degraded and humiliated. She was making choices and getting desired results..." In other words, she is not being abused. When Christian humiliates her by throwing her off his lap, throwing her naked out of his car, telling her to admit that she enjoys being degraded, hands her over to Mr Reese (Harvey Weintstein in essence) to be assaulted, telling Vivian she is his property, and Mr. Reese can spit on her and degrade her anyway he wishes, this isn't a boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. Instead, according to what you said here, she appreciates what he is doing, and he is giving her what she needs. I objected to this characterization of the situation, and this prompted me to give evidence as to why what you wrote was not true.
You also wrote that Vivian and Christian are not lovers, despite the fact that they keep having sex with each other. That does not make any sense. You wrote that Vivian calling Christian an asshole was proof they were not lovers, despite it being clear that she said it affectionately the first time. Also, calling someone an asshole, even if it was in anger would not mean they could not be lovers.
Here is a screenshot of your reply to another of my posts.
Here you seem to be implying that Vivian's behavior in this situation is somehow turning the tables on Christian. The events in the scene in question included him telling her Mr. Reese could do anything he wanted to her, Christian telling her she was his property, and other insulting and degrading things. He was basically telling her you are my toy and I can do whatever I want with you, and for the most part, she agreed with it. I said it before, and I will say it again, Vivian's descent into loosing herself and becoming a shell of her former self, could be the darker ending the author referred to. It could also refer to Hutch (becoming a broken man and shell of himself), or it could refer to both Vivian and Hutch.
