Why had this happened inside her own family?
Those questions did not have easy answers.
The Mother Was Facing Her Own Shock
The mother was not simply an observer.
She had also been deceived, according to the account.
At 44, she had believed she was entering another relationship as an adult who understood her own circumstances.
She had not expected the man she was seeing to be romantically involved with her daughter.
The discovery created a conflict between two roles.
She was a mother.
She was also an adult woman with her own emotional life.
And suddenly those two worlds had collided in the most painful way imaginable.
Whatever feelings she had developed for the man now had to be reconsidered.
But there was another responsibility.
Her daughter was pregnant.
And both women were carrying children fathered by the same man.
The mother knew that whatever happened between the adults, the children would eventually be affected by the decisions made in the present.
