Rita Bennett (later Rita Morgan) is a character in the Showtime series DEXTER For four seasons, she was Dexter Morgan's "significant other." She had two children, Astor and Cody when she met Dexter and later, after she married Dexter, gave birth to a third child named Harrison. Rita was a loving mother who previously was in an abusive marriage with Paul Bennett. Due to her violent past, Rita initially avoided sex with Dexter. This was one of the reasons he kept seeing her as he considered himsel