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Sven and Faye's "relationship"
snowdove:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 21 Jan 2009, 23:10 ---Man, being a strong female has nothing to do with punching guys in the gonads. A strong female would go about her business and refuse to become involved in relationships that did not meet her terms. Unlike Mr. Shawronska I'm not misguided enough to hold someone like Faye in contempt, but that doesn't change the fact that the character is too conflicted over what amounts to normal issues to really be considered a particularly "strong" person at this point in her life. She's a fundamentally decent and responsible person since she readilly recognizes that how she feels and how she should act are sometimes two different things, but until she's in a place where she can consistently act upon that knowledge, she's a hard person to call "strong."
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Agreed, but the thing is that the relationship with Sven DOES meet her terms in a strange sort of a way. She couldn't date Marten because she has issues that would make her hurt him, and blame herself. Because of that pressure, and those expectations, a relationship with Marten would hurt her. Sven, despite his rakish nature, is a safe choice. She can trust him to never need her to be there for him emotionally, so it also allows her to ignore her PTSD for a while. Sometimes avoidance is an effective coping mechanism. Maybe that is what she needs from a relationship, rather than monogamy. I guess I can't picture Faye just going out with Marten and being all perfect and lovey-dovey. Everything wrong in the relationship would be her fault, and no one deserves that kind of relationship. At least with Sven, she can let someone ELSE be the problem occasionally.
Mr. Skawronska:
--- Quote ---I guess I can't picture Faye just going out with Marten and being all perfect and lovey-dovey. Everything wrong in the relationship would be her fault, and no one deserves that kind of relationship.
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Faye does. Because it IS her fault. She deserves to go worm-crawling back to Marten, begging forgiveness that he reluctantly gives, and her guilt consumes her for the rest of the time they're together to the point where she transfers her spine to him and together they are like two jellyfish.
I have no idea what alcohol I'd buy for that occasion.
S
tacothesmurf:
Obviously Sven just has a fetish for chicks with dead fathers and crippling emotional problems that allow them to be indecisive hypocrites without being called on it.
quantum_insanity:
Well sure... I've had a couple of relationships like that myself (although maybe not quite so complicated)... hasn't everybody?
I have sneaky feeling though that Faye and Sven are going to eventually land up in a 'proper' relationship, which I think would be a shame.
And go back to what someone at the start of the thread said about friends with benefits not being a good idea because short term satisfaction does not lead to long term commitment.... well that's kind of the whole point of that sort of relationship. Not everyone wants a long term commitment. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Mr. Skawronska on 23 Jan 2009, 13:18 ---
--- Quote ---I guess I can't picture Faye just going out with Marten and being all perfect and lovey-dovey. Everything wrong in the relationship would be her fault, and no one deserves that kind of relationship.
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Faye does. Because it IS her fault. She deserves to go worm-crawling back to Marten, begging forgiveness that he reluctantly gives, and her guilt consumes her for the rest of the time they're together to the point where she transfers her spine to him and together they are like two jellyfish.
I have no idea what alcohol I'd buy for that occasion.
S
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Out of curiousity, why do you like presenting yourself as such a creep? Confidence is one thing, but posts like this one are basically just perverse.
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