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WCDT Strips 3811-3815 (20-24 August 2018)
Penquin47:
In this particular instance (ONLY looking at the "how are you" "I'm stressed and" "oh that's nice you'll be fine" convo), yes, Marten is in the wrong. That doesn't make him the bad guy. It doesn't mean that Claire being dismissive of her stress and trying to hide it from him so successfully that when she did change her mind and want to open up Marten wasn't expecting to hear it and made the mistake of blowing it off was right. She's not the bad guy either. There are no bad guys here. There's a person who made a mistake, and a person who wasn't coping with her stress in a healthy way. Marten apologized because that's who he is, and I expect that when Claire opens up with Marten listening that will include an apology for shutting him out.
(That said, Claire's timing on calling Marten out on the housework he said he'd do and didn't was poor. That could have waited until later.)
BenRG:
I'm wondering how long Claire has been trying to work up the courage to mention the laundry thing? :wink:
Seriously, this is classic Marten. He just likes things being 'okay' and relatively static that I suspect he is subconsciously blind to problems sometimes. It isn't malicious in any way, it's just the way he likes the world and, like all of us, his brain can be slow to respond when his expectations aren't fulfilled.
All that aside, Claire in panels 3 and 4 are the cutest that she's been for a very long while.
My guess? I suspect that we're on the verge of Marten and Claire going on a short holiday of some sort; only a couple of days so that Claire can decompress a bit. My feeling is that she's re-revising out of nervousness and lack of self-confidence. I doubt that there's a need. The cure will be to be somewhere else and thinking of something else for a short while.
TheEvilDog:
Okay, well I'm calling foul on Claire for that first part.
Marten has previously tried to get her to talk about what was stressing her out and she shut that down. As in he tried talking to her and she brushed that off, just as she accused him of doing.
Also, the little dig about the laundry seems rather churlish.
SmilingCat:
I feel like people are attaching more gloom to two imperfect people making mistakes and then talking them out like adults than they should.
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 23 Aug 2018, 00:42 ---Also, the little dig about the laundry seems rather churlish.
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I'm pretty certain the dig about the laundry was meant to be in good fun and was taken by Marten as such.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 23 Aug 2018, 00:53 ---I'm pretty certain the dig about the laundry was meant to be in good fun and was taken by Marten as such.
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I'm not confident it was. I've seen too many of that kind of "little jokes" turn into serious arguments.
But I agree with this sentiment:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 23 Aug 2018, 00:53 ---I feel like people are attaching more gloom to two imperfect people making mistakes and then talking them out like adults than they should.
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Let's just see where this is going.
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