Bells said:
While one would not expect him to guess that she'd murdered someone and stolen the baby from their womb, he would have known she'd miscarried. Did she hide the miscarriage from him and the rest of the family all this time? Didn't he question why she'd driven all that way, only to call and say she'd just given birth, 'come and pick me up'.
I would imagine we'll find out more about the Montgomery family dynamic, but what if he expected her to be in Topeka for those days? Perhaps she simply fooled him about the miscarriage and pretended she was seeking better maintenance than could be had in Melvern. I don't know Kansas, though. Something about rice and corn, though. Oh, wait, that was a Chex commercial.
There was the occasion, though, not too long ago, that the forum discussed a woman who recovered her daughter almost by accident; someone plotted a fake pregnancy, set the family house on fire, abducted the infant daughter, and got away with it for over five years.
I know it sounds misogynistic, but I'll withhold the application to my partner and Mrs. Montgomery: My partner, believing herself pregnant, went out and got hammered before telling me she was pregnant. She also managed to tell me in the middle of a fight. Calmer, hung over, and repentant the next day, she apologized for attacking me on the street. Simmering about the alcohol and pregnancy issue, I asked her what her doctor had to say, and then upon hearing her answer ordered her to actually go to a doctor. If an EPT is enough to know you're pregnant, it's enough to know you don't need beer and Jameson.
However, she's also f@cking bonkers. Her take on the assault is that since I didn't have her arrested on the spot, it never happened. She gets pissed if anyone mentions it and calls them liars. Furthermore, she tells the neighbors that I'm violent and dangerous. Add to that the aspect that when she's ultimately stressed, she hops into a self-destructive mode and tries to give herself concussions. (She's threatened to have me arrested if I ever intervene in that process again; I'm unsure how to answer to the police on that future occasion: yes, I let her beat herself to death because ....)
Now, all of that otherwise-morbid background is necessary because I can honestly say that if I (or one of her barfly buddies) knocked her up again, and she decided that this baby would be the thing that heals our relationship (she wants a secure relationship, but never liked me and apparently has never liked the sex), and then miscarried that baby, yes, she might try to conceal that fact from me as long as possible. Under enough stress, she would probably kill herself instead of someone else, but the point is that the one thing she cannot stand is to face the truth in hard times.
The misogynistic aspect arises from the notion that she whines all the freaking time. I hear so much about what's wrong with her that I don't believe her because of one simple fact: she never sees a doctor despite being "sick" more often than a living person ought to. (I'll skip the litany, suffice to say that any excuse she wants to make will eventually fall back to her being sick.)
She's so contradictory that she blamed her hangover on the food at her work. This would not be a problematic excuse except for the amount of time every freaking day she tells me about how her company's food is better than any other, and how their health controls are better than any other, blah-blah-blah.
In the end, there's only so much a guy can take. A friend once told me that he had a new appreciation for her; he'd previously called her the Devil (and he's an atheist, at that). It was her behavior during her pregnancy that did it. And then after she had the baby he realized what I had told him then: I can cope with her pregnancy because it's the same as I get any day she's not pregnant. I didn't really notice the difference.
So it strikes me that yes, it is entirely possible for the husband to have been out of the loop if he's so sick of her behavior that he's merely waiting for the next instruction to go to the hospital or call the doctor or go to forty-six stores in search of a specific brand of textured vegetable protein.
Mr. Montgomery has two teenage children. Between that and a pregnant wife whose actions define her as being unstable, yes, I assure you it is with in the realm of reasonable possibility that he did not know she miscarried. It could be that the only way he can fulfill his perception of family duties is to tune out a certain amount of her sh@t.
Between grief and hormones, Mrs. Montgomery has a possible insanity defense before her. The greatest tragedy would come if it turns out she needed psychiatric help before this.
In the end, I have no idea what anybody else is like when pregnant, or immediately after. But I do know a certain degree of insanity is possible to begin with. And yes, if Mrs. Montgomery falls within that range, then it's entirely possible the husband was clueless.
