The wife/mother ... Spoilers

Okay so the wife is a workaholic. Her husband complains about fitting him into her schedule. The daughter says she's never around, always at some meeting or with some client. So obviously the wife has been ignoring her family before and after the divorce; always working. So now that the divorce is final, she finally decides to spend time with her daughter and even finds time to date. She ends up having sex with the first guy she dates; in her bedroom down the hall from her daughter's bedroom while her daughter is there. It's her daughter's new dance teacher no less and he spends the night. Why does she let him spend the night with her daughter sleeping down the hall? She barely knows this guy but was trusting enough to let him stay over.

Why didn't she show the same trust in her husband when he denied her accusations and give him the opportunity to defend himself? She had accused her ex husband of infidelity although it wasn't true (he actually was set up). He denies it but she doesn't believe him and he leaves. Apparently he was fed up with her ignoring him all all the time and this was the last straw for him. She had confronted him about the empty condom wrapper in the car but never the anonymous email with the picture of him with another woman. Why not? Why didn't she give him the opportunity to defend himself and prove that the picture was fake? It's hard to believe that she really wanted to save the marriage. The daughter blames her mother for not trying hard enough to keep the marriage together. The mother says she tried but I find that highly doubtful considering how she had treated her husband.

She doesn't warm up to her ex husband until things start to go bad; calling him and telling him that his daughter misses him and that they both do. She tells him that she needs help and then the call is dropped and she looks distraught because of it. She didn't care enough about her husband when he denied any infidelity but as soon as things go bad she turns to him when he's away, out at sea somewhere? She already alerted the dance school and talked to the police. What was she expecting to accomplish calling her ex husband? Seems like when everything in her life (work) was fine she had little time for her husband but as soon as things go bad she suddenly needs him. What a pitiful woman!

Once she realizes just how bad everything is, her daughter tells her that her ex husband is on the way home, instead of having a look of relief she has a look of confusion on her face like she was maybe thinking how she was going to explain to him all that had happened. When her daughter confronts her about not wanting her ex husband to come home, one of her responses is that she loves him and thinks about him every day. I'm sorry but that's just too hard to believe! When her daughter says she doesn't act like it, she says that he hurt her (referring to the infidelity). I think she's just covering her tracks for bringing some of what happened down on the two of them because it doesn't mesh at all with the the call she made to her ex husband previously when she was alone and she hadn't yet grasped how bad things really were.

I'm sorry but I really find it difficult to have any sympathy for her. The psycho dance teacher would never have gotten into the house and that close to her daughter without her dating and sleeping with him. When the ex husband finally returned, I wonder if she had the guts to tell him that she had dated and slept with the psycho dance teacher. Probably not, since some of the responsibility for what happened lies on her shoulders. She even admitted it to her friend at work once the dance teacher revealed his psycho side. If she did tell him at some point, even though they weren't married at the time, I hope he wouldn't take her back. Yeah it was the psycho who ruined the marriage but it was in trouble already because of the wife. Funny how she finally found time after the divorce was finalized to spend time with her daughter and psycho dance teacher boyfriend.

Of course once it's revealed that her husband was set up and in fact innocent of any infidelity, she's back with him at their daughter's dance recital. She tells him that they missed him ( not that SHE missed him) and kisses him on the cheek. She's shown holding his arm while watching their daughter dance. I hope that last scene wasn't an indication that they were back together. I certainly wouldn't want her back after all she had done nor should he. Not unless she apologized for her bad behavior prior to the allegations of infidelity, not trusting him enough to believe him when he denied it or giving him the opportunity to defend himself. I certainly wouldn't take her back if she had confessed just how involved she was with the psycho.