Sleeping with Other People : I feel bad for Adam Scott's character's wife.

I feel bad for Adam Scott's character's wife.

I feel like she should know her husband cheated on her.

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I think she probably guessed in the end- but yeah she was the innocent party in all this, and it was very unfair on her

Re: I feel bad for Adam Scott's character's wife.


Helenlaurence says > I think she probably guessed in the end- but yeah she was the innocent party in all this, and it was very unfair on her
Hang on just a minute. I agree with you about the wife but she wasn't the only one I felt bad for.

I was very annoyed with that whole scene in which Jake attacks Matthew. I found it absurd and disturbing that Matthew was getting blamed for the relationship he had had with Lainey. First, at that point it was long over and it involved his wife and future child. She went into labor and could have even miscarried or been injured thanks to Jake. Later Lainey threatens to let her know about her husband, which was completely uncalled for. She didn’t do it because it would benefit the wife; nope, she couldn’t care less. It was to get her irresponsible and violent ‘friend’ Jake off the hook for a fight he unnecessarily started. There was no reason for Jake to have been arrested at all.

That said, I also have to add that I don't see Lainey as Jake’s helpless victim. If anything, she was his accomplice; a willing one, but, really, she was the one who kept going back to him. The girl had issues but it was her choice to keep seeing him. She supposedly stopped after learning he was getting married but only because she was upset; she wanted and would have continued the affair after he ended it.

And, let me remind you everyone that Lainey was cheating on Sam with Matthew just as Matthew was cheating on his then girlfriend who he later married. I am a woman but I cannot stand it when whatever a woman does is excused while the guy is seen as the dog and blamed even for her actions.

Clearly, Jake blamed Matthew for what he supposedly did to Lainey but he only heard her side and never took into account her role in their doomed relationship. And, wasn't the whole point of the movie that Jake and Lainey ruined themselves for other people because of their initial encounter during college? In my view, they both behaved irresponsibly. By having a one night stand, losing their virginity to some random person, they set up the kind of meaningless sex-filled life they lived for so long.

Everyone that ever got involved with either of them suffered from their bad behavior and irresponsibility. Those people were collateral damage yet they acted like those former partners were the problem. It wasn't until they finally learned to care for another person (each other), without involving sex early in the equation that they finally could grow up and move into the kind of adult relationship in which the other person meant more than just their body parts and had a value beyond sex.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

Re: I feel bad for Adam Scott's character's wife.

Nice,
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