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the daughter bonding with Jill

posted 15 years ago by naja12168-7
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If I were Jane and my daughter was bonding with my former husband's former mistress, I would be really hurt. I know I couldn't do that to my mother. Is it only because her father's affair with Jill happened a long time ago that she thinks it's okay to be close to her? Is it because she feels forced to accept Jill and get along with her since she's her step-mother? Or does she genuinely like her? Or maybe she blamed her mother for her father's affair? Or maybe she put the blame squarely on her father so she didn't feel the need to dislike Jill? I have no clue what the reason was but I thought it was weird. I don't know but it seems like she took Jill's side more than her own mother in the film. I found that odd since Jill was the other woman in her mother and father's marriage. On the other hand, Jill is probably the most remorseful homewrecker I've seen on this channel, so it's easy to see why Lauren found it easy to like her.

Anyone else have an opinion of Jill and Lauren's relationship.

[–] Ode-to-a-Loner 15 years ago

Yeah, I think that Lauren started to realize that Jill was not a bad person and so she slowly started to warm up to her. People can do bad things but that does not make them bad people in general. But I do agree that I would be hurt if my daughter started to become close to the woman who had been having an affair with my then husband. That's the kind of thing that rips your heart out and it takes a while to get used to the whole situation. Also, in Jill's case, she never pressured Lauren to have a good stepmother/daughter relationship with her. She simply let Lauren get used to her and open up to her in her own time. Also, there are some people who simply take a situation for what it is and try to see the best in what is. I think that Lauren was like that.

"Sometimes a person takes on the coloring of his associates"