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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, Lyanna pledges Ned to secrecy and Ned takes Baby Jon home and passes him off as his bastard son.  I can buy that part.  But why wouldn't Ned bring Caitlynn -- his own wife -- in on the deception?  It would make things easier in the long run, and it would avoid the whole Caitlynn mistreats Jon thing which must have been hard to bear.

I just can't fathom Ned not telling Caitlynn about this.[/quote]

He couldn't tell her.  There was no guarantee how she would react.  She might be against it, thinking the presence of a targaryen put her own family at risk.  I mean, let's not forget that no one stopped them from murdering the other targaryen children.  Caitlynn had no particular allegiance to Lyanna Stark.  And I recall she likely wasn't particularly in love with Ned.  Wasn't she originally with his brother?  When Robert talked of being shocked Ned cheated, it wasn't that they were so shocked b/c of his relationship with Caitlynn.  It was they were shocked because he was a man with a strong sense of duty/obligation/morality.

I also am not so sure that it was the cheating part that angered Caitlynn so much.  I think it was the humiliation.  I think that is why she always made it clear Jon wasn't to sit at the table.

Knowing Ned didn't really cheat doesn't seem like it would have stopped her from resenting Jon.  I think she still would have seen him in a negative light, as an embarrassment to her.[/quote]

I think it makes perfect sense that he wouldn't tell her early in the marriage.  He had no basis for knowing how she would react.  It is more surprising to me that he hadn't told her by the time the story began, at which point they made it clear it had grown into a loving marriage.  By that point I would have thought he would have trusted her and it would have eased so much tension with Jon.[/quote]

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