..Julie found out about her husband's affair, did this give her the excuse she needed to love again and confront her past more fully.
shareNo, I don't think that's what did it.....
Olivier had already made her "come out of her shell" by trying to complete Patrice's work....
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I do think it helped taint the relationship in a way which made it easier to move on from, yes. It's essentially that thing of, "Crap, I missed out on tickets for that gig I really, really wanted to go to", sulk x 100, then afterwards you find out it was actually pretty *beep* and it makes you feel better about it, about missing it, becuase it wasn't as good. Obviously that's a very diluted version of it - you can't compare losing a husband to missing a gig but hopefully you understand the analogy! I do think finding out helped her, yes, because it meant she hadn't lost something as pure anymore, she hadn't lost the perfect, fulfilled marriage, in a sense the wool was being pulled off her eyes, and the disillusionment unearthed; what she'd actually lost was an unfaithful husband who was fathering another woman's child. (Although clearly she still loved Patrice and the lost was still profound). Also, I actually think the fact he was having a posthumous child helped Julie move on in the sense that there would always be a bit of Patrice in the world, regardless of whether she wallowed in coffee shops or swimming pools thinking of him. If he has a child, out there, he can never be forgotten. Which I think is why she allowed her husband's mistress to live in their former home, in a way it was like she was restoring Patrice, which made it easier to move in from him. Maybe even she feels that was the life he should have had. Whatever the case I definitely do feel her discovery of the infidelity and Patrice's unborn child made her take off the rose-tinted specs.
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