Kate Legge

A, that she'd had the last word, but B, that he had destroyed...

you know, her one moment of pleasure.

And I wonder whether or not that hardened his desire to leave once he had found this purple passion, whether it toughened his, steeled his decision to go because he could, you know, he could see the chances.

He was too young to understand the compromise of marital fatigue when he was 14 years old.

All he could see was the disloyalty and the portrayal of his father.

But once he'd...

married and, you know, become entranced with this younger woman, Luda, you know, he was ready to move on and ready to go.

So you found out then there'd been intergenerational infidelity over four generations in this family.

Four generations.

Again, this brings us back to the whole issue of...

What predisposes a line, a generation after generation towards this?

Or is this just coincidence?

Have you arrived at some kind of a theory on this, Kate?

Some thought on where this is?

No, I think it's a combination of nature and nurture.

I do think that there is something to be said for this neuro research, looking at the reward circuitry of the brain.

And I think it's also this idea that once you've been exposed to an affair in your family of origin, it does just leave that door ajar.

So I think it's a combination of both.

And one of the things that I found from this deep dive into each generation was that there were similarities, personality traits that were shared between...

My husband's grandmother, his father, himself, and the fourth generation of infidelity.