I can see your pov but if her primary focus is actually her husband, then why pressure the doctor to be a voyeur? (Chapter 13) Even when Moe had captured him, he didn't doubt it was the Mom doing weird stuff and none of that has anything to do with her husband. If we learned the doctor and husband had the same name or were connected in some way that would be one thing but I don't think there is.
I also don't agree with the motivations about the abortions because those hurt her husband the most and she kept it secret. I don't think she's clever enough to have purposely carried Moe to term just to say, "I aborted all your babies and here is a random one!" It's too long of a con at this point.
I think she's very afraid of her husband leaving her. Which is why she throws money (and now a baby) at their relationship. Even separated for months, they're still married and if they have a baby, he won't leave her. That's why I wonder if she got pregnant on purpose as a teenager. Maybe he thought they'd break up when she went to college or she was afraid of even going to college and this was an easy way not to have to go. Even if her grades sucked, we know she'd get into her own family's university.
But even in chapter 13 where she starts her pregnancy plan, she refuses to reconcile with him (perhaps because her husband suggested it and she didn't yet) so I still think attention seeking is more likely
The difference between her first episode of cheating and this is that the first was instigates by her against her husband due to her mental health issues while this one was instigated because of her husband's willingness to seperate due to Moe's scheming.
Remember she just comes back from a dinner to find her son hospitalized, her husband blaming her for an incident she is not involved and suddenly accusing her relapsing and infidelity out of nowhere. We don't know for sure she was stable and loyal before the incident Moe planned but it she was, that was a massive accusations when she is innocent.
Ofc, her being her and him being him, instead of calming down and talking things he escalates to seperation while she attacks his insecurities.
That's not attention seeking behavior. That's also not throwing money to him. She is financially in control and both know it.
Later when she is hooking up with anything with a dick, she demonstrating her control over the doctor by making him watch her have sex, hatch a plan to deceive her husband and probably any medical procedure she needed along the way. Like aborting the baby she was with when she was hospitalized to start her plan to get pregnant with her husband's child.
It's about her control over him rather than attention he is giving her. When he is kidnapped, doctor thinks of her the first because he is afraid of her and is assured of her capability to kill him.
She is not trying to reconcile because if you pay attention, she never apologizes. Another reason she is not seeking attention imo. Attention seekers rarely are afraid to apologize for their , often intentional, "mistakes". She is trying to establish her dominance and taking control in all her relationships, mainly her family and husband and she is doing it. And it works.
While she may be afraid of her husband leaving her, her actions rather suggest she want him to bow down and accept her no matter what. Which is often caused by strong resentment towards a partner.
It's extremely common to punish a partner in retaliation to being hurt rather than reconciliation. Her husband hurt her in her opinion. She is punishing him by cheating and forcing him to accept her back. She probably can't even conceive a future where her husband goes and leaves her to be with someone else.
If not for Moe, this would totally work on this dude. They might even be happy together until their end lol. Many personality flaws don't rear their head unless a person is put under duress.
