you post occasionaly over the years in this thread about this and outed yourself as a staunch cheating defender, just because you got salty how in some rl cases the courts favor the wife over the husband. Ignoring how the wives are often left with the kids and less money
Never once said cheating should be normalized in relationships, like some crazy bitches say on TikTok, or that it's ok to take a cheater back forgetting what they did, I only said I understand why
the MC cheated once after all those years of problems in his marriage...
understand, NOT condone it... learn the difference.
Allison isn't playing, she is the victim.
Allison being devoted to Jake and not fucking anyone else was a disappointing revelation
its a bit more tricky her to do that, since she much more occupied with her daughter. She has to sell every potential boyfriend that she comes with a child. Jake doesn't have to sell that to his potential girlfriends
Wouldn't blame Allison if she had a rebound or two either, and about the single mom thing, you're wrong and might be surprised to find out just how many simps and rich dudes would line up to date and pursue an attractive woman like Allison romantically, not just sexually. Looking at you,
Bezos and Elon. (!!)
The difference between her
being a single mom by choice, not cuz of consequences should tell you all you need to know before pointing fingers at other characters. Not only this, but she said herself she refused to hook up or date other guys interested in her.
Jake always offered his help to co-parent Lily and help Allison out too, but she always refused and made everything she could to keep him away from Lily as much as possible, despite knowing very well that he wasn't a bad dad or a negative influence on their daughter. Even threatened to take Lily and move somewhere far away from Jake just to spite him. Still think she's a
helpless victim ??
Allison did the same. Except she didn't lower herself to that level just because she had an equal amount of bad time.
Both of them were idiots who could've addressed their issues, eventually been intimate with each other again and, as a result, saved their marriage, but for plot 'reasons' they didn't.
Now, if the story made it specifically clear that Allison put ~100% of effort into saving their marriage and Jake only the bare minimum, I wouldn't be here defending him. He'd be a dick, and she'd be an actual victim... he should go get cucked and regret losing his family for a one-night stand that bit him in the dick.
Since this isn't the case, I'm putting a part of the blame on her too bcz her character isn't supposed to act like a butthurt teenage girl who got cheated on and dumped for the first time and either move on with other ppl or try to give Jake a second chance and see if he's worth it, this based on the player's choice, ofc.
Lol, if Allison cheated on Jake, people here would DESPISE her.
Bottom line: Allison has/had to juggle career, child and husband. Jake only has to juggle his career.
It's why I mentioned plot 'reasons' at least a few times before. I can imagine what shitshow the same cheating in reverse gender would've gotten the dev and his team.
They played it safe so most players can still think of Allison as one of the two main LIs, Jasmine being the second... V's something of a bonus DLC lol.
This aside, you conveniently omitted to say anything about the
legal repercussions for Allison doing the same thing Jake did. Wonder why that is, and I already said Jake offered to help her after the divorce, she refused it.
Before they broke up, she could've asked a family member or close friend like Cammie or Cooper to help keep an eye on Lily or hired a babysitter. You make it sound like she was expected to do some sorta almost-humanly-impossible task, not simply raise a damn lil kid, work a job and be a wife, ffs.