Jacques pushes Rosalind to be honest with their colleagues about the nature of their relationship. Why does she resist? How would you feel in her position?

Jacques pushes Rosalind to be honest with their colleagues about the nature of their relationship. Why does she resist? How would you feel in her position?

We’ll today she would have good reason not to divulge her relationship. However, I think she personally didn’t because somehow it made her appear weak, dependent and frankly human. She wanted everyone she worked with to only see her scientific nature.

I believe she wanted her private life to be private. Also people would feel she needed his help and could not handle her job as well as she did. She was a very dedicated person and strived to be her own person as well.

Ethically the relationship was not acceptable. Boss and worker, then mistress? That totally went against her upbringing.

Revealing a relationship would be so not who Franklin was. And although she appears to yearn for a relationship, she steadfastly puts her work first.

Rosalind wanted to be accepted for the brilliant scientist that she was. If her colleagues knew about the relationship between Jacques and herself, they may feel that she was kept in the research group because of her relationship with the 'boss', not because of her scientific contributions.

As stated above, Rosalind wanted to be seen as having earned her position, she wanted to keep her personal and work lives separate. Her colleagues were alluding that Jacques had a reputation with women, although she didn't really listen to them, I think the warnings lingered in the back of her mind.

She was a private person. In light if recent news in the US she would have been prudent to keep her affairs to herself.

Rosalind is a private person. She is also unsure of Jacques's true feelings and intentions. Rosalind doesn't want anyone to think she is getting special privileges due to her relationships. After learning of Jacques's wife, she wants nothing to do with him. I would be embarrassed that I didn't know the truth and believed a liar. There are usually clues if you look and follow your inner voice.

I think she ran when she heard he was married. She also did not want her colleagues to think she advanced because of her relationship. I also wonder if she regretted her decision when she realized that everyone knew that jacque had affairs. I think she might have stayed if he had not entered into another relationship with another scientist