For the Love of god, have you not seen the movie?
Ennis and Jack did kiss at the bottom of the stairs, and we all know Alma saw them, BUT they ( Ennis and Jack ) did not see Alma, so how on earth can they have acted so indifferent to Alma, when they didn't know they had been seen,
I sure would act as normal as possible and somewhat secretive about the all kissing to my wife ,
not her knowing,
in the book it says they were both shaking the floor as if the train had railroaded a stop, or in similar manners.
I sympathize with people who feel sorry for Alma, but she didn't let Ennis know about her knowledge and her suspicion until years had passed and water flowed under the bridge
Please excuse my French, but she endured and said nothing so it was the sign of the times and the circumstance surrounding her life, and as for Laureen well we can write a chapter on that one, the girl was a bit on the easy side of the track if you get my meaning, daddy's little girl wasn't such an angel. She was shrewd and became wiser and knew damn well soon enough of her hubby little escapade, that she nearly got him shot fooling around, so you know at the end she was very controlling and misereable to a point that she couldn't bare the fact that he was doing the nasty with some dude, she got all the matter taken care of after daddy died. that is my take on it, it maybe harsh but it is what it is.
That been said, I can sympathies with men who are dishonnest with their wife and the same with wifes that have been lied at, in the overall schema of thing, my own personal experience made me leave my friend and I send him back to his wife,
not because I didn't love him,
but because he couldn't live with the fact that his daugthers might one day find out that daddy left mommy for a guy,
the guy they had come to know and respect, now had become the one that destroyed their lives.
At the end the price too pay for me had I know I would have never left him and would have left his wife and kids deal with it,
my life ended in the gutter and the suffering is still so much part of my memory,
it is truly worth it to go on assuming and pretending you are something you are not just to please the greater part of society, I say no and f***ck the world, I am so tired of the masses dictating people such as I what we should or shouldn't be, let it be, he have a right to love and a right to live as much as any other human being.