It's disappointing when the first scene I get with a girl also involves a third wheel I have no interest in.
I know a lot of people take the more is merrier approach to these things, but I enjoy playing favourites.
The game had previously implied
Alexa and Kris were FWB, so it's not like this comes completely out of the blue. But it's definitely a problem for players that liked one girl but not the other, made even worse by the way the MC will automatically drool at every opportunity for sex no matter how often we turn them down.
What would be wrong with reigniting their original passion, but incorporating the growth they have had since separating? Pretty sure it's mentioned they used to be great together, life or work just ground them down and they lost the spark.
Lily's accident, while tragic, seems to have been the catalyst that forced MC to become the man Allie always wanted him to be. He's driven, has a goal and they're both communicating. After the dinner at Allie's, we find out she still misses him and she still wears the engagement ring.
If the battery is a success, they will be set for life. Free from having to work, I don't see MC not committing time to being a great dad and a better partner.
What would be wrong is that the MC blew that relationship up, big time. I don't buy they could ease back into their old habits and live happily ever after no matter how responsible we make the MC after the fact (and frankly, thus far we can barely make him act like an adult). The chance to fix things with incremental steps was back when the two were in a cold war. After things went hot, I doubt simple self-improvement would be enough to mend the fences.
While we're at it, the notion that the MC and Allison used to be "great" together feels increasingly like an informed attribute. Most of the stories we hear are about how good the sex between them used to be; there's very little discussion of how much they relied on each others' support or judgement. The only time I can recall the two bonding in a more fundamental way was when they first brought Lily home, which is a good scene but clearly not enough.
I'm not saying the two didn't have genuine feelings for each other, but I get the sense those feelings were pretty shallow. When their sex life started to dry up in the face of their careers and the realities of parenthood, they don't seem to have had much to hold them together - hence why Allison started to resent the MC's hobbies and the MC blamed Allison for withholding her affection.
I think a future relationship between them would be on much more solid ground if the MC was thinking about how DIFFERENT being with Allison felt this time. Don't focus on how good it
used to be, focus on all the little problems he used to dismiss or assume would automatically work out as long as they kept the passion burning. Make me believe this time really will be different.
To me - and I grant this my just just be my own interpretation - seeing the two of them drift back towards their old patterns is like watching a recovering alcoholic start drinking again on the grounds they've learned some great techniques to help moderate their consumption. I guess it's technically possible that could somehow work, but I sure wouldn't bet on it. Unfortunately, it looks like I might have to.
I mean apparently they were a dream couple until ~5-7 years into the marriage. These are a lot of good memories, expieriences, storys, passion shared. They shared 1/3 of their life together after all and and it was probably the most defining part of their lifes so far.
Imo its fine to reignite the original passion if they add their newfound experiences/perspectives to it. Jake kinda changed/reverted back into a improved version of the guy she did fall in love with.
And lets be honest, they did got married waaaaaaaaaay too young (at least for Jake), the break giving him opportunitys to experience single life and freedom.
But if he gets that taste (single, sex, different women, freedom) and realises that he would prefer to have his family back, i would say that a huge learning experience and shift of perspective. No more fear of missing out.
The renders of the dialogue with Nat are not about sex by the way, Natalya tries to explain Jake that Allison doesnt dislike him at all which he struggles to believe.
See above. I'll take your word about Nat's dialog, but I don't think the distinction matters. The problem wasn't that the MC failed to "live up to his potential" last time. Even in an alternate world where the MC became rich and famous years ago, the marriage would still have fallen apart because the two of them weren't pulling in the same direction.
The idea that the MC would be more faithful and better able to communicate once he's had a chance to sleep around is... rather optimistic given his behavior in this update. Even turning down empty sex with his own student (when he KNOW Bates will fire him at the slightest provocation) has him fantasizing about the sex he's missing out on.
