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But the third and most compelling reason is that she feels “shyly spoken, decent, awkward, straightforward” Ian is completely different from cocky Phil, and that therefore his motivation for infidelity wasn’t anything like the same – that the incident was truly a one-off. Her initial interview with Ian goes a long way to confirming what her instinct is telling her. Ian says: “I love Jaz, and Matty; they’re the only things I care about. Not that woman, she was nothing. What happened was a slip. It absolutely didn’t mean anything. It’ll never happen again.”
Then she hears the same again from his father, David:
“You do believe it was a one-off?”
“God, yes. My son’s not capable of any kind of sustained duplicity...[The girl’s] not important. Honestly. This slip was about a moment rather than an individual. We won’t hear from her again.”
Carol tests them both but they stick to the same earnest line. So essentially Ian is redeemable, and Carol understand this: “I let myself imagine, for a moment, what might have happened if someone had taken Phil aside all those years ago and told him. Whether Phil could have been straightened out...I had a chance to make things good.”
Yes, Jaz is vile, isn’t she? But she’s meant to be. She’ll get her come-uppance when Matty’s older, rest assured!

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