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Originally Posted by Tinordi
She had an affair on Walt because he was emotionally unavailable and detached from both her and her family. Walt's "affair" with a life of crime including drugs and murder and his increasingly extreme ends that he took to cover it up and conceal from Skyler was the impetus for the affair. Skylar has culpability for having an affair but it wasn't like she did it out of nowhere. Walt has a significant amount of responsibility to bear for that. Further, Skylar had significant suspicions that Walt was having an affair with the second cell phone and the like. Sure, eye for an eye isn't a justification but Skylar is a fallible human and broke down at a moment of weakness when she thought Walt had stopped loving her. Had he just been the normal father he was at the beginning of the series it likely wouldn't have played out.
This again shows the double standard. Produce thousands of kilograms of dangerous addictive drugs and killing people, even innocent children is okay. Have an affair because you're jerk husband lives a second life and you're the bad guy.
Much of the Skylar hate is rooted in sexism. "If only that nagging wife would get out of the way of this awesome guy, she's the problem."
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Walt also had an affair, infact i'd say he had two (that we know of). obviously, one of the affairs is his obsessive building of his drug empire which alienated him from his family. and the second affair (which happened first), was with the his old company ceo's wife, from grey matter. That's why he left and was bought out for $5000