I still think she is the one who wanted to open the marriage
After everything that we’ve seen from Nick, I can’t agree with this view.
There is too much evidence to the contrary that has come straight from Nick & especially in hindsight, this was evident for a long time before people caught on to the nature of his true character.
With Kayla, there is a lot we can’t know for sure. The more likely scenario is that Kayla has long felt invisible to Nick (something she has stated on video) & she’s an exceptionally dumb, extremely impressionable woman with no fixed identity of her own besides “wife” & “mother”. She ends up so desperate for Nick’s attention & affection, that she goes along with all of Nick’s degen coomer ideas. She may even appear to take the lead at times, trying to show what an accommodating & “fun” wife she is.
The true shame is that she puts herself & her desire to be the hot wife above the needs of her children, although we can’t be in her head, perhaps she thinks that if she doesn’t, her marriage & entire family structure will collapse.
Maybe this assessment of Kayla is being too charitable, but really what it comes down to is this:
For the sake of argument, say she is the cause of the swinging nonsense. The state of their marriage sliding out of control still lies with Nick. As the husband, the man, the head of household & the sole source of income, he holds the power.
This isn’t some misogynist take either, it’s simply a fact. Not all relationships are so skewed and this situation isn’t a good thing when the power is abused. But giving Nick the benefit of the doubt that he’s not an abusive husband, it is still his duty & responsibility
to shut that shit down on the spot.
No way should any husband put up with a flighty ho. He stamps that out & attempts to fix whatever the problem in the marriage is. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. But a man has got to give it his all, & should the bitch try any funny business, he can stand tall in court when seeking custody of the kids. Nick comes from money & is a lawyer, ffs. Kayla wouldn’t dare cross any lines with him if he stood up to her.
Except, that’s not what Balldo did. He enthusiastically became an ambassador for a kick in the nuts “sex toy”, aligns with actual pedos, & flounces about being an emaciated homosexual fashion victim. Also, he’s a drunk.
Looking at the totality of Nick, & what a hypocritical, narcissistic, slimeball he is, not even sure if Kayla would be too far in the wrong if she outright cheated on him. At best, that would probably be a sideways move. But instead, she’s gone down to his level. Joined up with the devil at the expense of her kids.
Meh, idk, it’s less a good vs bad spouse & more they are both crappy people.