How would you react?

Great question. Something similar happened to me in my mid-40s and I was stunned, angry, heartbroken, distraught, full of rage, etc. This is the first Paul Cox film I saw and did not enjoy. I suppose because (IMHO) it seems simply too cavalier regarding cheating on one's spouse. I want to view Cox's "My First Wife" to see his take from the other side of a breakup.

Devastated of course and because she...

1. Selfishly didnt resist the affections of an old love.

2. Knew her infidelity would ruin lives and hurt the people who loved them.

3. Screwed her lover.

4. Selfishly rationalized her infidelity by saying that "life is brutal at times, it isn't always possible at times to resist, to obey the rules and deny the things that always matter".

5. Cruelly and coldly told her husband that if she were 30 years younger she would leave him and marry her lover.

6. Rejected all her husband's attempts to reconcile by telling him she couldn't accept his love because she couldn't return it and then used the classic female line, "let's be friends".

I would take some comfort in hoping she would spend eternity regretting her cruel and selfish behavior along with hoping that her lover (who doesn't have long to live) would himself have to answer for his actions.