[Post Toasties]

Why would she have 'paid a price' for it? I don't see it.

[marajade]

Because obviously my mother didn't know the kind of man she married...

[Post Toasties]

I think women having children after marriage by others and deceiving their husbands about it is very serious wrongdoing. And I don't see how it has anything to do with your family situation so far as you have described it, either.