Rob doesn’t seem to like Sophie right? His digs about bringing her down to earth, his comment of seemingly punishing her by living in that studio unless she asks family for money, him arguing with everything she says and always having to be right, and him having 0 tolerance for any conversation that matters to her. Either he just doesn’t like her, or there is one of those weird manosphere mindsets about her being young and needing to be directed.

Also though their relationship highlights a problem I’ve had with the 90DF universe for a while. Producers and edits heavily focus on the problems a couple has, and we have very few moments (if any) of seeing the good in any of these couples relationships which makes it impossible to root for almost anyone.

  • KMFDM781@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. Rob acts like he’s preparing her for “the real world” with his triflin’ bs and admonished her for coming from a wealthy family, but then tried to encourage her to ask her family for money.

    2. He acted indifferent to the idea of having children, but then when she unknowingly took any control he had away from him by making a hard stance about not wanting to be pregnant, he was angry. It’s like he was planning on her wanting kids and he would use his non committal indifference to lead her along and exert control over her.

    3. Nobody wants to live like that and have to use the bathroom outside in an outhouse. His place is a dump. While probably fine for a single guy, it’s definitely not when you have to consider someone else. If keeping his place nice isn’t important to him, then he needs to be like “Hey babe, I know my apartment is rough and while unfortunately we can’t move for a little while, I 100% welcome any ideas or anything you want to do to spruce it up and add your own personality here to feel more at home. I’ll help any way I can!”. Ya know, send the signal that maybe you’re not a giant piece of shit narcissist and you actually care about her being comfortable so far away from home.

    4. She is too good for him. Absolutely too smart for him. He runs away to pout way too often.

    4.5. I don’t know how they knew each other as long as they did and never talked about the child situation. They even lived together before. Just about every adult relationship I’ve been in we hash that out in the first time talking. There were a couple other things that I was like really? You don’t know that about each other already? She said they talked on the phone for up to10 hours sometimes. Wtf were they talking about all that time?