The continuation of the article points out that she should have realized that he had a deep need for affirmation and admiration based on deep insecurities. Now that things are in the open the psychiatrist says they may be able to reconnects on a deeper level with professional help.
Nevertheless, she is going to have to forgive the fact that both she and the house servant were pregnant at almost exactly the same time. So, it was not like in the later months when it might be difficult for a big strong man to make love to a very pregnant women he was seeking need fulfillment. That might be easier to forgive. [When a friend of mine told me that her husband who had been in Europe for 4 months had been unfaithful there, she was able to forgive him because one of his attractions was that he was a vigorous and lusty man.]
It may be harder for her to forgive the long term affair he has had with another woman who has just come forward. Unless she had already accepted it. I have always wondered when some corageous political wife is going to step forward and say, “I can accept that my very popular husband may fall into temptation sometimes. But, so long as he comes home regularly, pays the bills, is good to me and the children, PRACTICES SAFE SEX, and makes love to me when I need it, I really don’t care, and neither should you.”
Well obviously they weren’t practicing safe sex.
How about if she is unfulfilled? Can she go out and get some strange, as long as she cooks dinner, does the laundry and is a good mom?