Yes exactly, and I myself never claimed that to be the case. But she accepts it willingly as a consequence of her actions. Seeing your differntiated way of arguing I thought you would see, that it is neither nor: She doesn't intend it in the sense of getting enjoyment. But also she isn't naive and ignorant of it.
What bothers me is that you paint a picture of a woman who doesn't know what she is doing, who is completely oblivious. AND: who doesn't have other negative feelings towards her husband which break out at this moment. You paint her as well-intentioned but miscalculating - I think it's much more complex. I think you have a too narrow concept of "intention". If a man cheats for his enjoyment in front of the eyes of his wife and other people would you also say, that he doesn't "intend" to humiliate or to hurt her? In the narrow sense, yes. But I would guess you would find that argument apologetic and sophistic. You would say: of course he knows that he humiliates her and he does it anyway and he doesn't care. And you would say that he doesn't have to hold her in high regard and respect her to begin with and for a long time if he does that. And I think it is exactly the same here.
To be clear, I am arguing against one specific thing - that Vivian is intentionally humiliating Hutch. I haven't said that she isn't aware she's doing it, just that it isn't her intention to hurt him. I agree that she isn't naive and ignorant of it and I don't think I've been painting a picture of a woman who is oblivious to this. I just don't buy into the argument that by doing something, where you know that hurting someone will likely be a by product, you are therefore intentionally hurting them. Being aware that something is caused by something you do is not the same as specifically going out to cause that thing. There is no intent, which is the whole key aspect of it.
To tie that in with your example of a man cheating, you say that this hypothetical male cheats for his enjoyment, in which case I suggest that he might not do it to hurt his wife, but he clearly doesn't care much if he
does hurt her. But presuming a like-for-like with Vivian, who is not doing it for her enjoyment (even if she does start to enjoy it) I would say that he doesn't intend to hurt his partner, even if he know that he is doing a hurtful thing. It's cause and effect, even if it's a pretty easy line to draw from one to the other.
With Vivian, even after she knows Hutch has seen her with Christian, she is still doing what she can to avoid hurting him, by not openly saying the words, by offering to upend their entire lives in order to get away from it, etc. Those are not the actions of someone who has a disregard for her partner's feelings. She fucked Christian for... well, technically for undisclosed reasons, but as far as we can gather at this point in time, she did it because she believed it was the only way to keep Hutch from being fired, and them facing financial ruin as a result. I see her thinking of it as a sacrifice she has no choice but to make (of course she had a choice, but people can make stupid choices in pressure situations), and if she can protect Hutch by keeping the details from him, then she will do so:
"He can never know. He doesn't deserve to carry that pain. It would destroy him."
"I have to carry it for both of us... I have to!"
its your thoughts and view of this situation. in my view this goes back to the dinner at boss's house where he says just my type of guy(which implies he did this to other couples which he boasts to vivian in the kitchen), and he know how to manipulate them(hutch and vivian being the similar to the other couples he had his way). and is using those methods on hutch and vivian to get what he want. so in retrospect it's clear manipulation is how i see it.
There's clear manipulation, yes, but I was saying that I don't think Christian's manipulation is why Hutch and Vivian were talking in code. That was just about the two of them.
don't think you are getting what i'm trying to say about vivian there. in the future updates she might be a willing partner with christian to humiliate hutch which is just speculation not saying like it is happening in the story so far, like duke keeps posting in this thread.
Yes, I know you were speculating - I disagree with that particular speculation based on what we've seen so far, but it's still a possibility.
someone stated that it might be mayor's house which might be possible cos the mayor model keeps popping up in a few render blurred out by the dof(focusing) effect.
It should be noted that we haven't seen the mayor (or his wife) yet, that we are aware of. So saying he keeps popping up in the background needs to go down as speculation too. The person you are referring to could literally be anyone (unless I've missed a confirmation on it somewhere!).