To me even since Happily Ever After she’s been really really let down by Asuelu and his family are willing to have them live in poverty because of their own expectations.
Sure there are cultural expectations and things, but surely if you know your grandchildren would suffer because of the amount of money you’re asking for you’d either dial it back or not ask at all.
Sure Kalani teams up with her sister but I think it’s because she feels utterly unheard in her relationship. Can you blame her? Asuelu and her don’t have the same love language at all and they have a huge barrier in terms of language and culture.
Just my thoughts.
The thing is you can know someone a long time and still get cheated on and end up having a messy relationship. This is literally what happens to people who DO get to know each other too. Though I get your point about jumping into a relationship without thought, it’s never a good move, especially when you go straight to having kids. That’s fair.
Of course, I’m not saying that ONLY people who rush into marriage get divorced.