It does not need to make sense to you, Son, not right now. Someday it will. When you have had more experience of life and the complexity of relationships. They change, develop, bend over time. The ones that do not bend, break.

I do not wish either of us to break our marriage. Neither does your mother - of that, I am quite sure. Just as I am sure of her loyalty - loyalty where it counts, which neither begins nor ends in the bedroom.

It's ... complicated, I grant. But it is, nonetheless, very true, and not pretense at all.