It's especially dumb, when this particular story breaks those conventions and presents a life that doesn't go in a straight line. Map is open and routes go all over the place, people move on it and sometimes they may even return where they came from, after having realized that is actually what they wanted all along.
Usual fare about kids and marriage in yuri is a story where some girl/woman laments how they lost their beloved, and now they're married and have a kid, and could never possibly ever come back to them ever, cue to absolute misery or Yuri Fairy dropping a new perfectly designed love interest right in their lap for a happy ending. Which is ridiculous nonsense, when it's presented as some sort of a fact rather than as a mood of despair that eventually passes.
Lot of marriages are effectively destroyed by arrival of that first child, especially if the relationship has lots of hidden wrinkles waiting to be exposed. It's one of those crucibles that show who the people in that relationship really are, and what they really want.
Also, people cheat. People want to cheat, and you might even say that in some cases they have a" right" to cheat if you look at full context of their lives. Certainly anyone queer who has been bludgeoned into submission by their family and society is likely to rebel, at least indirectly.
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