Joe is sort of right about relationship fragility. Lucy/Walky were doing decent, then they went to church and it just kind of imploded.
Shane Wegner
2024-08-14 07:34:08 +0000 UTC
This ship is so pure I love it so much.
Girlycore
2024-08-14 06:31:41 +0000 UTC
He wasn't pressured. He was asked. He never set the boundary in the first place, so Joyce had no way of knowing it was there. I wish people would stop trying to paint it in such a negative light when we don't know how she would have reacted to being told he didn't want to drink (preferably when they were sober and she was planning a drinking party).
Girlycore
2024-08-14 06:29:14 +0000 UTC
AWWWWW.
Alexandra Falk
2024-08-14 06:03:46 +0000 UTC
Awww, I think they're working out
BBCC
2024-08-14 04:41:37 +0000 UTC
This is going better than I expected, AND I still want Joe to set solid boundaries around being pressured to drink. If the resolution is that drinking together is not something they do for now, that's fine (that being the intersection of Joe's "I'm not comfortable drinking" and Joyce's "We can either both be sober or both be drunk"), and Joyce needs to accept it.
Lisa
2024-08-14 04:25:32 +0000 UTC
Ah, the lesser known variant of Butts disease, Dicks disease!
Grace Kieser
2024-08-14 04:19:51 +0000 UTC
This conversation is depicted with Joyce seen only from behind, probably because we're seeing Joe's POV, and she's ahead of him in the hall.
I didn't expect Joyce's anger to dissipate so quickly, but Joe's vulnerable self-doubt brings out her goodheartedness. And she turns partially toward Joe to share the amusement: perhaps the me-ness is turning into we-ness. But that still sounds like "penis", ffffft.