IMO, both of them knew Maddie might be pregnant.
And JS is upset with the questioning, the game is up....yes, SS was more important to her then her own child. There were several questions she could not answer.
It's interesting -- I think the bolded is factually accurate but also not
true -- if that makes sense. I'm not sure that anything was important to JS, beyond her own self-conception as one of life's victims -- no money, single "parent," too many meds on too many diagnoses, too many hours at work and too few in bed, etc.
IOW, I'm not sure that SS was
more important to JS; only that Maddie was
less important. Both seem to have adversely affected the % of time JS had to herself and her comforts, but SS's attention to M in the guise of "looking after her," despite his long-running and savage abuse and eventually murder, at least gave JS a break.
Not sure I'm making sense, for which I apologize. I just don't see in this case anything like a that , murderous Diane Downs-esque desire to have her man at the expense of her child -- she doesn't seem to have wanted anything or anyone very much at all,
including her child. I think it's that numbness and seeming inability to care or feel much at all beyond those weak, performative attempts to play a grieving mother that so frustrate LE also.
I don't doubt that she imagined herself as loving M and SS -- I'm just not sure she could will it into actuality.
Anyway -- not trying to make an argument, just looking to put my anger and befuddlement into words, so MOO, IMO, etc.