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I agree with your points except I don’t think she was ever grateful. I don’t recall her ever saying she was grateful. She only wondered why Carcel helped her people in the previous timeline. I think learning to be grateful or thankful to someone is something she currently have no concept of. It will most likely be an aspect of her character that gets development in this timeline only after realizing she lacks gratitude.
Everyone who keeps arguing about who’s more in the wrong aren’t looking at the details that actually matter: Cárcel in Ines’ previous life. Two things make ines look much worse than carcel no matter how you justify or argue against it.
1. From ines’ pov, carcel has never involved himself with her in any way except once. In season 1 she recalls how he risked his life to help Emiliano and her escape even tho he’s going against the royal family and could be killed. For that she is most probably confused, but also mainly grateful cause this man is risking everything for them.
2. Knowing this she still chooses to use him as a pawn at the age of 6 knowing she was going to divorce him no matter what in the end. And the only one who was actually 6 in that moment was carcel. Ines was a mentally grown ass women who’s lived three lives at this point.
I think that’s what makes Ines more in the wrong than carcel even if cheating is a big red flag. People argue she had no choice even if in was wrong for her to use someone. But not only was he a 6 year old who had done nothing to her in previous timeless, but he also RISKED HIS LIFE TO HELP HER AND EMILIANO. And she’s aware of this cause she mentioned it before. I think that’s what makes it worse. The audacity to use someone who’s helped you makes me personally feel as thought Ines has more to make up for to carcel than he does.
Also carcels very quick to apologize and admit his wrongs when someone or especially Ines points it out as we’ve seen. Ines never does though. Whenever Raul or carcel’s butler points out some flaw about her shes quick to use verbal aggression and her higher status against them as we’ve seen in her conversation with the butler when he points out how it’s unfair that she’s deceiving her husband, and when she talks down to Raul when he 1) told carcel about her sickness in season 1 when she collapsed and 2) Raul expressed his appreciation for carcel in season 2.