A reoccurring theme with an unknown direction continues to catch my attention involving the mysterious Betty Draper. There appears to be some sexual mode which Betty goes into. Sure every human has their sex drive, but it's as though she is setting herself up for something-- and I think that something is going to be bad. Example of these sexual or odd suggestions are listed below:

Season 1 (episode unknown): Betty fantasizes about the traveling air conditioning salesman while leaning against the washing machine.

Season 1 (episode unknown): Betty has a weird relationship around the neighbor boy whom she let's play with her hair.

Season 2 (episode 1): Betty flirts with the mechanic.

Season 2 (episode unknown): At the Stables and Country club dinner around the young man Arthur.

I am not sure where this is going but with Don cheating and Arthur continually pursuing, something BIG is developing and bound to happen.

I agree Don... there's something funny going on. I don't think Betty and Arthur are going anywhere, but rather there will be an older man who will possibly have something more to offer?

Possibly Roger???

JK... my stomach gets a little uncomfortable during some of those scenes. It's weird but also somehow entertaining.

My guess? She and Arthur go further but she stops him again before things get too heavy.

Sterling, I don't see what Arthur has to offer Betty which would be worth it for her in the end. Even though at times she appears to be clueless I think Betty is smarter than we might be giving her credit for.

I actually caught a glimpse of Duck looking at Betty when he came to their home for dinner. When he handed her flowers...
Did any one else notice that? He really thought she was lovely.

I feel for Betty. She lost her Mother and her father is seeing another woman. Hold on the 70's are coming!!

Haha... hopefully Mad Men can make to the 70's they are only in Jan. of 61.

Interesting observation Deannie. I did not notice Duck and Betty, but I think it will take someone as handsome and rhetorical as Don to wo "Bets".

I think Betty's relationship with the child is disturbing, as well.  It seems to be pretty obvious that the show is setting her up for some sort of sexually-related mishap.  Searching for evidence of Don's affair really seemed more like she was looking for a justification for her to do something outside of the marriage.  I think the show would be disturbing if they develop the angle with the child, but I'd definitely prefer that over her having something as pedestrian as an affair.  Betty's bound to crack eventually, and developing her as a Borderline personality type would be a good direction for the show, I think.

Betty is in the throes of depression..If the plotlines are true to the era,Don and Bett should reconcile and have a third child..a recioe for disaster.

Betty is angry, angry, angry!
We've seen how Betty reads books--wait until she gets
hold of "The Feminine Mystique" (circa '63, I believe)
Watch out people!

The kid is back! I had a feeling Mad Men would bring Glen back into the script, however, I did not think it would be this soon. I hope Glen's character is terminated from the script as I see only a disturbing between him and Betty. He is also only nine, thus, the writers can only do so much to push the situation.

I still think Betty finds someone else which appears to offer her the world. I even think it would lead her to abandon her kids, as there is a disconnect between her and them as well.

Betty is headed for the classic nervous breakdown!

I think Betty is misleading the disturbed Glen who may consequently attempt to attack and/or violate her.  When Glen was making the noise in the playhouse it seemed to foreshadow a "prowler" situation that could prompt Don's homecoming.

its eerie, dont know where write is going with thi..

I'd like to weigh in on the mother- child relationship between Betty and her children. I grew up in the late 50's and early 60's.  More often than not, parents were just like Betty Draper.  They were not all that involved in the minutiae of their children's lives and nor did they care much.  They provided food, clothing, shelter, schooling with some love and concern in there along the way.  I do not believe my experience is any different from most people born and raised then. The "Helicopeter parents"of today would have been talked about and looked at askance!
She is not cruel to her children and Lord knows she is much more "there" for them than Don Draper is!  But that is the way it was during that time period--dads worked, moms were at home caring for the children and the house work.   Sometimes the kids blended in with the "house work".  I agree with Gin Blossom--look out when Betty and the second wave of the women's movement hook up!!

What's the deal with Glen? He and his mother seemed to come out of nowhere. I missed a lot of the first season, so if they were introduced there, I must not have been watching then.

Having grown up with six brothers I know how they fantasize about older women. Concerning Glen’s attraction to Betty, he sees her as the mother he wished he had. (Let’s face it, she looks like she stepped out of a story book.) He has a normal fantasy about how he is going to rescue her. After all, isn’t this what Betty is looking for. For Betty, I think she is just being a mother, but she took too long to end the situation. They are both two very lonely people who have a common bond. What would Don think of this situation? Remember the yellow bikini? Is she desperate?