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WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)

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jaredstar:
ive been thinking about this  and it seems to me that this all started when marten  mentioned  how a year before he was more of a whiner  then he is now.    It occurs to me that given the random nature of the person in question  she may be to get him to man up.   From what  i have seen she wants to stay  and he wants her to stay.  In her own weird way she might be trying to get him to give her a reason to stay.

themacnut:
Far more likely she wants Marten to stay away. That's usually the case when a person pulls a fade like this-they want to end things without the messy breakup conversation. A coward's way to be sure, but then again many people don't take being dumped very well either.

WAYF:
Well, I seem to have called it. I've never done that before. :psyduck:

I think Marten, as I am, is comparing what's happening here and what happened with Vicki. He doesn't want to push the matter because he thinks he'll seem a bit too doggedly determined, and that's fine. I think he's doing the right thing.

But I still think Padma might have a reasonable explanation for this, especially given how much her personality has changed since we first met her. In the past few weeks (QC time) she suddenly became a lot more serious about, well, everything. The last time she said something that fits with her bright and somewhat silly personality was here, i.e. when she and Marten first began this relationship. I'm pretty sure there's something in that.


Oh and by the way, was I the first person to notice Marten's shirt? :P
Penny Arcade reference or indie music reference? Jeph likes to do both...

lepetitfromage:
I personally think that if the only options are Go See Her or Leave Her Alone, Marten is doing what the situation calls for. The last encounter they had was the conversation in bed about how Padma wishes they met earlier. It was her first clue that Marten may not be serious about their situation, when Marten was the one who was initially interested in her but toned down his seriousness because that's what he thought she wanted because that WAS what she wanted until she had it, then she wanted more but then when she wants more, Marten was finally getting the hang of just having fun.

Given how complicated their mini-relationship-thing is/was....it's understandable to an extent that Padma is avoiding him (even if you ignore the granny saga) because she has absolutely no idea how to convey such a convoluted thought process. All she has to say is that she ended up liking him more than she had planned and is worried that he isn't as interested anymore. She could be doing a number of things- pulling the "chase me" thing because she's desperate/not right in the head...or genuinely trying to end thing, but I just can't seem to wrap my brain around that one. It could be that Padma is no longer interested, but given her reactions to a lot of their conversations, it just doesn't seem likely. Either that or she is ripping the band-aid off early so it heals by the time she HAS to deal with Grandma.

Either way....it's not nice. Are either of them doing what makes the most sense? Absolutely not. I think the most sensible way for either of them to react to the other would be:

A) Marten sends Padma a text that he will be ready for her to talk if/when she wants to but will not press her anymore so he doesn't risk annoying her.

B) Padma sends Marten a text that she will talk to/see him before she leaves but she's not up for talking yet.

ZBixby:
My bet is that Faye being who she is is gonna storm over to tSB and demand to know what's going on as she took the Vicki situation into her own hands and has a knack for looking out for Marten.

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