You already know that I disagree with everything you said here

Fighting fire with gasoline....
If you want that broken as fuck couple to ever heal, just let them pair bond in the flower garden godammit.
I mean the fact Lacey supports and pushes this plan forward, should be telling you everything you need to know. Just look at the track record of her brilliant plans for a minute. Girl just wants to see the world burn.
They are different. To me DS's characters felt more shallow. And I think it had a very noticeable drop in quality around the mid point and on.
I know I know
Well, in real life terms, I agree with you.
Tbh none of them should be in a relationship until they are better, some people should actually never be in a relationship at all.
Story wise, I think the separation will happen at some point either forced or willing and it would be a nice story hook to place some possible growth.
I think
Chaoticjustice has been a strong supporter for divorce and rebuild.
I don't think that would do much good to them in the state they are right now, as it would strip them of yet another thing, but overall the separation for a while concept might not be bad.
Personaly I enjoy the story, the pain and hurt you can feel in it, and I admit i was a bit hang up and logic in past to, but started to learn it not always possible in vn and games like this. I'm more thrilled now how the future will turn out for Lacey, Mc and the other girls, will they be more hurt, will they fall back, or will they get stronger. But yes it might be interesting to know how she financed all those booze and drugs, but not high priority for me to know, it depend on the developer where he takes it.
I do enjoy the story as well, I guess it is pretty obvious with the inane number of posts I make discussing this game!
On what we differ is that I am more interested in the past of some characters, especially Lacey, because that I think it is very key in redefining relationships and eventually the future.
I also exercise a lot of suspension of disbelief, I am fine if everyone is interested in MC tbh, I would like to see him a bit more of a whorty recipient of all this love (maybe showing his weakness only when Lacey is involved? showing compassion only towards worthy people?), I am fine in having serious leeway when the use of drugs is discussed as I personally would not be able to describe the full feeling and effects in a satisfactory manner, I am fine even with the total absence of STDs as they would be relatively unimportant to the story (yet can you imagine one of the king weekend question being never I ever had an STD???

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But as I said some stuff would have been pretty easy to explain and would actually help a lot in the world and story building!
Anyway, I guess we agree on the most important parts.