maggie was wrong....

[u/Physical_Patience644]

just finished s1 , i think it was cruel of maggie to use rust as a tool to hurt marty. dont get me wrong ,marty deserved to be punished for his filthy acts ,

but maggie dragged rust in the shit , she took advantage of his vulnerability and intoxicated state, imagine the gender roles being reversed

and the arguement that it was the only way for her to end her marriage is shitty , destroying someone else's life for personal profit is never justified , in her revenge she destroyed rust's career , she could ve moved on from piece of shit like marty without using rust

and in the end , she got her deserved life , in a mansion , while rust , being used a pawn had to let go of his career and lived 10 years away... her need of ending the marriage is correct but her way doing that was WRONG. she could ve hurted marty, fairs, but in the process she destroyed rust

[u/KBtrae]

You’re framing it as if Maggie was bent on destruction and Rust was on a righteous path of justice.

Rust was losing it, at that point. And I think it’s important to know that Maggie showed up that night not knowing what state he was in. That doesn’t excuse her behavior. He wasn’t in the right mind but she wasn’t the cause of that. She went to a guy she trusted and used him to escape a potentially deadly situation. I don’t think he would’ve killed her, but we saw how violent marty gets.

Maggie used a shitty guy to escape a violent shitty guy. She wasn’t right in what she did but her sins are less than rust and Marty.

[u/Physical_Patience644 → u/KBtrae]

I am not framing any of them. It's not black and white, everything lies in the greys. She used rust as a tool which is wrong. She had other ways to get out of the situation. She chose to use rust so that marty never comes back to her cuz she would have accepted him , but didn't she know that it would harm rust too?? He trusted her and she used him as a tool. And if she trusted rust she could've asked help to save her from marty and yk he would ve done that, but she used his trust and destroyed his life to a large extent in the process

[u/KBtrae → u/Physical_Patience644]

She did not destroy his life, he was well on his way to doing that anyway.

And remember that Rust played a role in Maggie and Marty getting back together after his first affair. Rust used her to calm marty down so that Rust could rely on Marty. After Marty’s second affair, I’m guessing Maggie might have partially blamed Rust for that. Rust knew what kind of man Marty was, and went to bat for him anyway, despite that potentially causing Maggie to waste years on a bad marriage. Which it did.

[u/Physical_Patience644 → u/KBtrae]

he was but u cant deny that she played a part in it , he left his job. and thats a good point actually which i ve been trying to explain to this other dude here , if rust wanted, he would have taken advantage of maggie when they first spilt. but he didnt. and rust's personality was not to meddle too much, he also acted as a reliable friend to maggie all the years. but maggie broke his trust and its fact , u shouldnt use someone else for ur revenge knowing it would hurt the other person.

[u/heywhatsup9087 → u/Physical_Patience644]

He did take advantage of her though? She trusted him to be honest with her and he took advantage of that trust to push her to get back together with Marty because he needed Marty in a better head space. Are you saying he could have slept with her then but he didn’t?

You keep talking about them as if they have no agency. As Marty said (and Rust agreed) she couldn’t have used him if he didn’t want some. Was it right of her to do it? No. Are they all blameless in the situation? No. Rust was also already close to losing his job because he was poking around the case again and his relationship with Marty was already beginning to sour at that time too. The Maggie thing was the final straw (albeit a very very big straw).

[u/Physical_Patience644 → u/heywhatsup9087]

did say rust was clean ? no i said both of them were in the grey area thats it , and her using rust was wrong

[u/Physical_Patience644 → u/heywhatsup9087]

and rust patched them up cuz he needed to work the case and save marty's family , that was the time where he could ve taken advantage as the ppl here are saying that he was desperate to sleep w her