Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-71.196.218.238-20150816065218/@comment-38518333-20190615023603

Lavoo, she was never raped, play the questline again. Did Tamara mention any of that? No. We DO know enough about their past relationship to judge. Like you judged him raping her without anyone, not him nor Tamara making any mention of it. It is very evident from their dialogue that they both wanted the kid, but a drunken brawl changed Anna's mind.

"he only was around her during his months of absence to help her out and only in the end they started to love each other and ran away."

Yeah that makes cuckoldery sound better. Nothing excuses abuse, but nothing excuses cuckoldery either. BOTH are at fault. Deal with it.

Possibility 2 - he was gone for months for war. No letters, not anything and she may have thought hes already dead, started sth with the guy and only then didn't stop it when the baron came back and left again for war.

Mean to say there weren't enough men who'd INFORM her if he died. Sure, its hard to tell corpses when they're burnt and whatnot. But not sending letters, returning home later, not unusual, he did many times over. She can deduce that he's dead ONLY if he didn't return after the war. Also, if she thought he'd died, why would she leave a letter SPECIFICALLY addressed to him? Even if it was in an off-chance that he was alive, that proves that she still considered the possibility of him being alive, and would leave anyway.

"None of us forced our exes to a living hell for punishment or whatnot. All without drinking ourselves to death, because this doesn't solve much, does it?"

FYI, its not written in modern society. Divorces are so common today and many glorify cuckoldery, but not before. In some eastern countries, during the Ancient - Medieval eras, men used to cuck their wives a lot. And so, before the marriage ceremony, the couple is paraded around the village atop a decorated chariot so that all of the vilage would know if the man cheated. There were women who cucked men sure, but not nearly as much as the men did. And today, its just a freehouse for everyone, wives cuck just as much. But that's besides the point. Cuckoldery was a taboo back in the day.

"This is the witcher universe people. There is always more to it than what it seems."

Apply this to your own thinking genius. If you think from "its never the woman's fault" perspective, even then you still can't see through to the actual story. No one is excusing Baron, what he did was objectively and morally wrong. What we ARE saying, is that Anna cannot be excused either. What she did was wrong too. Both were wrong. Both required patching up.