Cynthia is very carefully trying to tread her line and to make us think that
1. it was great love: "John was crazy about me"( chapter
- how do you like such words? I nearly fell off the chair. After 5 years together John was crazy about her. John hesitated all the time whether to marry her or not, as he wasn`t deeply in love. I think that all girls know what it is like when a guy is deeply in love with you or the more so when he is crazy about you. It`s clear that John wasn`t. John felt comfortable with Cyn, she was well-balanced, older, she knew how to soothe him and so on. She knew everything pretty well.
2. pregnancy occurred by chance: "We didn`t use anything, nobody told us about the need to do it, our parents didn`t tell us about it" - Who is she trying to fool? She was 19 and already had some sexual experience. Even in a faraway Siberian village people knew how to avoid having a child. Parents sometimes, no, often, don`t tell such things but friends do. If Linda was on the pill why not Cyn? She got pregnant in 1962!!!!! Not immediately after they started going out. Even if she wasn`t experienced at first (but remember she had a boyfriend with whom she made love before John) she definitely was experienced years later! So the idea that Cyn was inexperienced and they just made love cause they were little teenagers who didn`t know that it could lead to children, this idea doesn`t hold water. I think John just relied on her in such matters, kind of: let women take care of it! You see, he was comfortable with her in all respects. At that time he didn`t know the song DON`T LET ME DOWN! But she did let him down.
Her words that they didn`t want children only prove that they did take care.
The timing was chosen not by chance. John and the boys were embarking on a new career. They had just had the famous contract and were getting famous (a shaky situation for Cyn). Cynthia had been waiting for John to marry her quite long - 5 years is a long period of time for any relationship (some of her attemps to get him had failed). Paul had left Dot (a signal). Cynthia`s mother was in Liverpool at that time, not in Canada - what a coincidence! -(she could have her on her side in case...). Sorry, KSY, you are not quite right: Cyn`s father died quite a time before; they can`t have been strong catholics cause Cyn`s mother took the news about her pregnancy calmly. And certainly Cyn, the most important thing, knew John very well. He was a decent fellow, she was sure he would never abandon her.
KSY, please, read the very first post about wanting John`s legacy and money.
Please, mind that I am not trying to impose anything. That`s just how some women catch men. They have no pride. And usually such marriages end in divorce, that`s why I absolutely don`t blame John for abandoning Cyn. Cyn is to blame for everything herself, she asked for it! Now face the music.
But on the whole all this is just speculation and reflection and meditation...a bit of analysis and a bit of psychology... :