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Okay I imagined that dialogue then I don't know why I thought she confirmed she initiated that scene
That has not been confirmed. Exactly like what happened in that bedroom as they were getting ready to fuck the night away (or during). SC is not telling us.

Which would not be the first time. It appears that Husband did not see Wife storm into Boss's house yelling at him and throwing his contract at him. What Husband see is Boss carry Wife with her legs and arms wrapped around him upstairs for sex.

Sneaky SC.
 
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No, she didn't, unless I'm forgetting it. The closest you get is the section I quoted from the restaurant, with Christian saying she did most of the talking, and she was making assumptions. So it sounds like she talked herself into it and he wasn't exactly going to do anything to stop her, hence the "lie of omission".

I can totally see it as well, with how she (at least half-intentionally) talked herself into giving Christian a hj/bj on the drive home,
It could have been like that, but SC isn't telling us. I think it would be early in their relationship for her to simply drop her panties. When Wife and Boss are in the bedroom, Husband hears a lot more talk through the door than her simply dropping her panties.

The drive home: I see that whole thing in the car as Boss protesting to how she pretends she doesn't want sex with him when she really does. "Thake me straight home", when that is not what she really wanted at all.
 
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After 480 pages this feels like excavating a corpse or doing archaeology.
1. At the moment when the boss "invites" her on the tour through the house and she reluctantly and timidly goes with him the "initiative" can't be hers anymore. It's absolutely clear to all of the three what the boss is demanding here. Her decision is just to say no or yes - this is not taking the initiative.
2. Even if we ignore that immediate context of pressure and reluctance and concentrate on the deal itself: Imagine a prostitute standing in the street, a car with a client has stopped before her, he is shaking the dollar notes, but hasn't said anything yet. Would her entering the car be the same as "she initiated sex"? Of course not. It's supply answering to demand.
To be fair that first point is speculation not fact. After she tells Hutch she's a big girl, the next time we see her, she's bent over a table. There's no actual proof he coerced her to spread her legs over the table, everyone kind of assumed that based on how Christian and Vivian were initially presented. However given new facts about Vivian and her personality I'm not convinced he forced her over the table. Christian even told Hutch the dinner was supposed to be just them. Vivian inserted herself back into the dinner. If you substitute yourself in for Vivian, and you had no desire to sleep with Christian in the first place wouldn't the normal response be relief that you don't have to attend the dinner with the boss who allegedly made you uncomfortable with his forward nature? Sure you'd be nervous about your husband losing his job, but by your own admission all three can figure out what Christian wanted, that doesn't mean Christian actually asked her for sex. She could have just jumped to the conclusion that sex was the only way to solve the issue (we later find out he never intended to fire Hutch), and thought to herself let's just get this over with.

As for the second part the comparison makes no sense for your argument since a transaction with a prostitute (various legal interpretations not withstanding) is consensual I know the law sees things differently depending on where you live, but prostitution boils down to I give you money, you give me some form of sexual contact. Illegal yes, but a prostitute can turn down offers so yes unless she/he is forced into that car the prostitute initiates sex because again they choose who they want to accept money from, unless they're being trafficked which was not the narrative the story presented in the beginning. Vivian had a choice, Vivian made a choice was kind of the whole theme of chapter 2.

Although the hotel scene probably does turn the story into some form of sex trafficking I'm sure. Which then does make me agree with you on some level, but Vivian accepts the offer so she's responsible for her own decisions. not going to the police and reporting what happened, and saying she enjoyed is dark and the author probably should have went in a different direction, but that's the route they choose to take the story. She gave some ideas at the restaurant, but there's nobody or current threat forcing her to work with Christian, after Christian tells Vivian Hutch's employment wasn't under any real threat, and that Hutch is just being reassigned because he's allegedly bad at the social interaction part of the job(something Christian likely was considering before the two clients allegedly pulled out of the deal).
 
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listen it is very clear in the beginning hutch didnt want her to help. vivian forced it. vivian forced her way into hutch's world to get the boss. period. she just feels guilty for being a hoe. she will blame him, use any excuse to make it look like she didnt want it but in the end she has to have it. she will use hutch to present herself as the good wife and she will use all the other men for sex . she is building the perfect world for herself. vivian will have her cake and eat it too .. every last drop of it.
 

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To be fair that first point is speculation not fact. After she tells Hutch she's a big girl, the next time we see her, she's bent over a table. There's no actual proof he coerced her to spread her legs over the table, everyone kind of assumed that based on how Christian and Vivian were initially presented. However given new facts about Vivian and her personality I'm not convinced he forced her over the table. Christian even told Hutch the dinner was supposed to be just them. Vivian inserted herself back into the dinner. If you substitute yourself in for Vivian, and you had no desire to sleep with Christian in the first place wouldn't the normal response be relief that you don't have to attend the dinner with the boss who allegedly made you uncomfortable with his forward nature? Sure you'd be nervous about your husband losing his job, but by your own admission all three can figure out what Christian wanted, that doesn't mean Christian actually asked her for sex. She could have just jumped to the conclusion that sex was the only way to solve the issue (we later find out he never intended to fire Hutch), and thought to herself let's just get this over with.

As for the second part the comparison makes no sense for your argument since a transaction with a prostitute (various legal interpretations not withstanding) is consensual I know the law sees things differently depending on where you live, but prostitution boils down to I give you money, you give me some form of sexual contact. Illegal yes, but a prostitute can turn down offers so yes unless she/he is forced into that car the prostitute initiates sex because again they choose who they want to accept money from, unless they're being trafficked which was not the narrative the story presented in the beginning. Vivian had a choice, Vivian made a choice was kind of the whole theme of chapter 2.
You completely miss my point. You seem to believe there is nothing in between initiating sex and being forced. My whole point was that she is between both - an understanding between adults, a giving in to pressure.

vivian forced her way into hutch's world to get the boss.
Nonsense is contagious.
 
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You completely miss my point. You seem to believe there is nothing in between initiating sex and being forced. My whole point was that she is between both - an understanding between adults, a giving in to pressure.
Like I said we process information differently. Initially after chapter one, I did believe she was pressured and coerced to some extent and viewed her as sympathetic, but after Christian tells her Hutch's job isn't in danger she had zero reason to engage in sex with anyone but Hutch, the restaurant revelation, and the part where she proclaimed she felt empowered changes my perspective on the story. Everything is done by Vivian is her using her freewill. At least that's how I see it.

If S.C decides to revisit that scene and gives something concrete I'll change my opinion and say Vivian isn't at fault. However with what's available I'm not going to say she was pressured into anything she made a choice to go to the hotel, she made a choice to stay with the creepy old guy in the hotel after he told her she can go, she then made another choice to drop Hutch off at home, while she chose to go to Christian instead of the police, she made a choice to have sex with Christian in the backyard, and she also asked Christian to take her to the bed, and finally asked him to give it to her lovingly. At no point after she decided to ask Hutch to dinner did anyone pressure her. Maybe your view is the real narrative, but if it is the story is doing a poor job at showing it. These characters aren't children or teenagers, they all are over 35 years old, so at some point within a story a sympathetic character has to take accountability for their own choices.
 
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I don't think that is definitive. It still is not clear who initiated sex in the back yard. In my mind, "you could have always said no", is simply shukandjive from Boss. Implied consequences were always there. Levels, layers. And if what Boss says were actually true, there would have been no reason for her to say in the final scene.

But rember...
or for him to reply
I know-I know...Husband...noble sacrifice...I get it.

No reason to say that at all. There would have been mutual understanding of the situation, but that understanding was still lacking. Mostly because of Boss's shuckandjive.

For me this final scene is them beginning to be honest with each other about the situation and what is happening between them. Everybody needs to get a lot more honest in this story. Because long term relationships cannot survive otherwise. A breakthrough of honesty for Wife and Boss is significant. A similar breaktrough for Wife and Husband could again cloud the situation, depending on what is said. Not that I am cheering for Wife and Boss. I would say the conditions for a successful relationship for them would be the same as for anybody. Unless SC wants to bless us with more fantasy around that.

So for a final linking of the lives of Wife and Boss three things are needed
1) Husband needs to go away one way or the other
2) Boss needs to get a lot smarter about satisfying Wife's emotional needs, with his understanding that is not the same thing as sexual needs.
3) Wife and boss need a serious conversation where they really do say the words, not in the middle of sex, and commit to each other mutually. If he owns her, she needs to know that she owns him. Otherwise, in the end, no deal. Not immediately, probably, but over a period of a few years a spouse starts realizing the kind of jerk they are hooked up with, or not. If not, happy satisfaction can ensue and years roll by.
I was literally quoting what is said in the game and then saying "that sounds like", so I don't know why you're saying it doesn't sound definitive - I didn't say my assumption on it was definitive. However, a couple of points: 1. Christian says that's how it went down and Vivian doesn't deny it - but he doesn't at any point say that she initiated the sex, there's just a lot of implication and omission in the conversation, so it remains largely a mystery to us. The most we know about it is what was said in that restaurant scene I quoted. 2. You seem very hung up on the "noble sacrifice" bit, using it once again here when it has no relevance to the points being discussed. 3. Why you've moved it on to how Vivian and Christian can become a couple, I have no idea. That's also nothing to do with what's being discussed, but you've tagged it on as if it's in response to what was being said...
That has not been confirmed. Exactly like what happened in that bedroom as they were getting ready to fuck the night away (or during). SC is not telling us.

Which would not be the first time. It appears that Husband did not see Wife storm into Boss's house yelling at him and throwing his contract at him. What Husband see is Boss carry Wife with her legs and arms wrapped around him upstairs for sex.

Sneaky SC.
Hutch wasn't there for the second time at Christian's, after the contract signing. He didn't see Christian take Vivian upstairs for sex. There was never any indication that Hutch saw Vivian throwing the contract at Christian, or any of the sex that followed it, it was a projection of Vivian's - she knows now that Hutch saw their first time, and she's imagining him there watching, which is (IMO) one of the reasons she says "not here" and they go inside.
It could have been like that, but SC isn't telling us. I think it would be early in their relationship for her to simply drop her panties. When Wife and Boss are in the bedroom, Husband hears a lot more talk through the door than her simply dropping her panties.

The drive home: I see that whole thing in the car as Boss protesting to how she pretends she doesn't want sex with him when she really does. "Thake me straight home", when that is not what she really wanted at all.
Again, this is in response to Christian saying Vivian did most of the talking, and Vivian not denying it. It doesn't explain the specific steps of how they ended up fucking. However, regardless of how long into "their relationship" it was, she did indeed drop her panties. The second time, in the bedroom, she actually didn't drop her panties, because they were still outside, having been kicked under the table :ROFLMAO:

And for the love of god, the multiquote function is there for a reason, please use it!
 
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You completely miss my point. You seem to believe there is nothing in between initiating sex and being forced. My whole point was that she is between both - an understanding between adults, a giving in to pressure.

Nonsense is contagious.
I think it would have been obvious to Boss that Wife was wilting before him (as she tells Sunshine) and was his for the taking in the backyard. That does not tell us who initiated or any other details. I also think it must have been frustrating for him to have Wife then turn around and start acting like she does not like having sex with him. Even up to the final scene and the "But remember..." Wife does not really show that she thinks their relationship has any legitimacy in spite of the "I belong to you" and her obvious enjoyment of his dick.

Emotional need for Boss. He wants Husband gone, and acknowledgement from Wife that their relationship is real, she enjoys it, and is legitimate. If he were considering dumping her, I don't think those things would matter to him.

Same thing for her, the fact that she is now bringing her emotional needs forward suggests that she wants there to be a path forward together for them.

Lots of if's there. Maybe it will happen.
 
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These characters aren't children or teenagers, they all are over 35 years old, so at some point within a story a sympathetic character has to take accountability for their own choices
Of course she makes her choices out of free will - I even said so in my first answer: it's her decision to say no or yes. But that's not the same as initiating sex. Even among normal lovers it's usually one party who initiates and the other one follows. What is your point? That doesn't mean she wasn't under pressure and that doesn't mean she desired to have sex. Your world is binary - fault/non fault, free will/forced. I guess you think that if one acknowledges she didn't want the sex one takes away responsibiltiy. If you would make the effort to go back in this thread you would see that I was one of those who always stressed her accountability.
 

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You completely miss my point. You seem to believe there is nothing in between initiating sex and being forced. My whole point was that she is between both - an understanding between adults, a giving in to pressure.


Nonsense is contagious.
the boss said it clearly when she asked if she never came too see him in the morning and he said none of this would be happening. that is the truth. she forced it too happen. she went there with an agenda an she seen it through regardless of hutch's feelings or concerns
 

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I was literally quoting what is said in the game and then saying "that sounds like", so I don't know why you're saying it doesn't sound definitive - I didn't say my assumption on it was definitive. However, a couple of points: 1. Christian says that's how it went down and Vivian doesn't deny it - but he doesn't at any point say that she initiated the sex, there's just a lot of implication and omission in the conversation, so it remains largely a mystery to us. The most we know about it is what was said in that restaurant scene I quoted. 2. You seem very hung up on the "noble sacrifice" bit,
I see that as very relevant to their understanding of each other, and often overlooked by players. It bears repeating. In my opinion. It is also related to how Boss kicks her out of the car and insists that she say she likes sex with him. This reluctance on her part is part of his feeling about the whole situation. In the end his patience with her might be better than mine would have been.

I mean, as she tells Sunshine, she was actually wilting in his presence. How is she so unwilling to admit that to him and act consistently with it, as she must have acted in the backyard and in the bedroom.

using it once again here when it has no relevance to the points being discussed. 3. Why you've moved it on to how Vivian and Christian can become a couple, I have no idea. That's also nothing to do with what's being discussed, but you've tagged it on as if it's in response to what was being said...
I see it as one natural consequence of the story. Who actually initiated what is not very important.

Hutch wasn't there for the second time at Christian's, after the contract signing. He didn't see Christian take Vivian upstairs for sex. There was never any indication that Hutch saw Vivian throwing the contract at Christian, or any of the sex that followed it, it was a projection of Vivian's - she knows now that Hutch saw their first time, and she's imagining him there watching, which is (IMO) one of the reasons she says "not here" and they go inside.
It sounds to me like you missed seeing him watch through the window as he carried her. SC does not bother to explain to us how he managed to get there at that moment, but there he is. SC does not give us any indication that this might be an imagining on her part.

Again, this is in response to Christian saying Vivian did most of the talking, and Vivian not denying it. It doesn't explain the specific steps of how they ended up fucking. However, regardless of how long into "their relationship" it was, she did indeed drop her panties.
Or Boss removed them after some talking, I would expect after a little foreplay, kissing etc. SC does not show us. Immediately dropped her panties is the suggestion that I don't buy.

Because in the end I see them beginning to try to deal with each other with real feelings. "She immediately dropped her panties" is what you get from the whore on the street corner.
 
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the boss said it clearly when she asked if she never came too see him in the morning and he said none of this would be happening. that is the truth. she forced it too happen. she went there with an agenda an she seen it through regardless of hutch's feelings or concerns
And why did she do that class??

Say it with me...It's because. She's. A. Cheating. Hooooooooooooooooooooooeee.
 

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the depth of the story.. lets see husband in trouble at work and wife bangs there way out of it and makes her own money too .. and gets vitamin D anywhere she wants .. am i missing something?
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Just some of the finer points but as a quick sum up, nailed it.
 

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It sounds to me like you missed seeing him watch through the window as he carried her. SC does not bother to explain to us how he managed to get there at that moment, but there he is. SC does not give us any indication that this might be an imagining on her part.
Hutch wasn't there. You're suggesting that in the couple of minutes between Vivian failing to get into Christian's house and going round the back to find him there, Hutch arrives, gets into the house, immediately goes to the back into the kitchen, not to where he knows the bedroom is, etc. Meanwhile, Vivian and Christian go inside to continue having sex and Hutch is suddenly nowhere to be seen?

Vivian looks at the window, which is empty, she imagines Hutch there, but he is not there, and she screws her eyes shut to banish the image, these four images come up in sequence:
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And then a screen or two later we see the other side of the window, again with no Hutch:
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The shirt is similar, but Hutch wasn't wearing a jacket. The left image is Hutch at Christian's in Ch1, the right is Hutch during the evening of Ch2:
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I even said so in my first answer: it's her decision to say no or yes. But that's not the same as initiating sex.
My point is I disagree with that premise. How I fill in the missing content leading to the backyard is Christian and Vivian had a conversation about Hutch and his job, at some point he guides her outside they continue to talk, Vivian doesn't like the way the conversation is playing out, and she could've said something like "okay I know what you really want". She lifts her dress up without Christian asking, lowers her panties put her hands on the table, and says you have ten minutes. She probably thought she could get Christian off (which is why she makes note later that she knows how to get him off now) before Hutch would finish writing on his notepad. However once she let him enter her she was overwhelmed by the feeling, and how much she was enjoying it, which led to where we are now and why I'm now leaning towards Vivian being the one who initiated sex the first time. I can see it the other way to, but given the current story, I find it harder to believe he forced her to bend over, and took her by force.

Also my thoughts on this story has no bearing on what I think about real life relationships (outside of even if I chose not to divorce her for financial reasons, no way would we still live together, and if we saw each other in public I'd have no interaction with her), or felonious assaulters so please stop bringing up real life, because I consume this as a fictional story not a window into real life relationships, or violence against women.
 
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she went there with an agenda an she seen it through regardless of hutch's feelings or concerns
I agree with that sentence of course. But the agenda wasn't "to get the boss" but to rescue her own financial ass. Otherwise you would contradict your own depiction of her as a hoe, would you not?
 
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In the Vivian-Christian relationship, there is certainly a form of Vivian's fascination with Christian, and Christian's strong manipulation of Vivian in which he imposes his vision of Vivian on her, and she accepts this as her own thoughts. (A form of gaslighting, or rather cognitive manipulation (from Socrates))


this is the clue of the Vi-Chris relationship
The question is whether she is able to wake up from this dream.
 
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