I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then on at least partial motive. I think there were both long term motives and short term motives. Yes, I agree, nancy had affairs. But in nancy's case, I think she was looking for intimacy, not sex. She wanted to find someone to love her. And she kept trying to have that something with brad. that's why she kept going back to him, trying to make it work. Until she heard brad say 'he loved HM.' It was at that point she no longer could make it work, he thoughts of 'love & intimacy' with brad were irreperably shattered that new years eve. Brad neither had the capacity for intimacy, nor was he at all interested in it. Brad was interested in being a man on the move. Shallow and materialistic when it came to his women. He saw a bit of 'france' and decided the life-style was far more suiting to him that cary, nancy, suburban home, etc. MOO