I remember that Allison accepted that she too contributed to the decline of their relationship. They grew apart, was always busy and would end up arguing while barely showing any affection to one another. She admits to this.
		
		
	 
    Yeah, but this is also conditioned by the path the player wants to take with her, whether it's the reconciliation or hate path, the majority of the blame for their failed marriage falls more on one spouse than the other, and this here is what got me scratching my head about their divorce... basically, 
BOTH of them accuse the other one of not putting enough effort into the marriage and giving them the exact same thing they (Allison or Jake) wanted and only putting the minimum effort into trying to fix things up before the inevitable happened. Other than our usual excuse, "it's necessary for the plot", I honestly can't think of anything else, anything that would justify her angry post divorce reactions toward Jake anyway, that would justify either one's actions.
    My point is, the lack of intimacy, emotional support, communication, respect and quality time one of them, let's say Allison, accused the other, Jake, of not giving them are the exact things the other spouse, Jake, too had to accuse her of not giving him, and it doesn't make sense to me why, IF they really wanted to save their marriage. They didn't find a common ground, which was pretty easy to do in their case and actually try to fix the marriage or divorce without going through all the harsh shit they did.
	
		
	
	
		
		
			When it comes to Jake and Allison, they are both to blame but the bigger blame and rightly so will always go to Jake. He is the one that put the final nail into the coffin. It wasn't Allison.
		
		
	 
    That's debatable, and you only say this cuz he's the one who screwed up. So, as already mentioned above, Allison wanted the same things from him that Jake wanted from her. The common ground here is plain obvious, pointing fingers now is only an excuse to avoid having to 
take responsibility for her actions that led to his, which 
she only does after Jake confronts her about it, and her reaction is telling.
    Again, she's the most vocal about the divorce and the cheating, which would imply she loved him more than he loved her, the problem here is, she didn't do too much to prevent it from happening, only the bare minimum like Jake did prior to his cheating. If she did 
all she could to save their marriage, I wouldn't be posting here trying to excuse his asshole behavior.
    It's just common sense, and I agree with the general consensus in the thread about the fact that he, she too ofc, should've tried harder, even if for Lily's sake, or they should've divorced without going through all the headaches. This is the rational decision most, if not all, of us can probably agree on, but then comes the porn 'logic' part of the problem saying that if ppl made all the right choices from the get-go, we wouldn't be having a story to follow. It is what is.
	
		
	
	
		
		
			I will agree that removing Jake from Lily's life completely is going too far. One thing is to be mad and hurt, another is to understand that Lily needs both of her parents in her life and it only hurts the child when she cannot see her father. 
Same goes for Jake. Continuing being asshole to Allison and antagonizing her is not the way to go about things if he wants to remain present in his daughter's life.
		
		
	 
     Yeah, that's the part that pisses me off the most about her, 
a completely unnecessary thing of her to say on a few occasions and a big minus to her character, IMHO. Don't know why the writer considered that to be necessary or whatever... we can say the same about Veronica's absurd clinginess after she finds out about Lily's accident.
     I understand that ppl find her physically attractive... hell, won't deny this no matter how she acts and how shitty she might treat the MC in the next updates, am a big lover of blondes myself, as you can see by looking at the woman in my profile pic, but Allison wanting to separate Lily from the MC just cuz of her personal feelings is something I can't forgive too easily bcz sadly, that's something that happens IRL a lot.
     The MC IS an idiot, we can agree on this, lil bit of a pissy princess on a few occasions too by passing his part of the blame in the divorce to Allison, but he sure as hell ain't a negative influence on his own daughter, ffs. Allison even jokingly trying to threaten him with this isn't something a good mother who really loves and cares about her daughter should do.
	
		
	
	
		
		
			Am I gonna hate her because of the last sentence in the image? No. She's still just a human, we all get emotional.. we all process things differently.
		
		
	 
    We do, but we're not talking about a simple breakup here, we talk about a marriage and a kid's future. Emotions won't help improve anything, they only make things worse in most cases, especially IRL, as you can see it happen in theirs. It's why I said critical thinking and taking self-accountability for one's actions and words are more important than emotions.
    Never claimed Allison should just suck it up and get over it like a good girl, on the contrary, I'd even expect her to make Jake put some real hard effort into earning that forgiveness he's looking for on the reconciliation path, BUT they should try their best to get along while co-parenting Lily, for her sake only, not Jake's or Allison's. Constantly screaming and cussing at each other won't do anything to fix their problems, nor will it reflect positively on Lily's upbringing and her mental health. That's what I personally think it's the best option and would suggest to her we did if i was in Jake's shoes.
	
		
	
	
		
		
			Personally I like Allison as a character, I said this before. She is the most interesting to me out of all the main girls, I just dislike how her path is handled so far.
		
		
	 
      I don't find her 
that interesting and don't think her reaction to the divorce and everything happening with her ex after is anything special or unique compared to how other women would've reacted in her place, but I agree that her path isn't handled the way most fans of the game (myself included) expected it would be.
	
		
	
	
		
		
			To me it is also understandable from her point of view so I just don't much get why people would be upset over it.
		
		
	 
    From her point of view, or the person who got cheated on in general, it might seem ok, from mine, as the player, it doesn't. It's made crystal clear storywise that she still has feelings for Jake and didn't sleep or date other men bcz of this, but my problem with this important detail is that, to keep things sounding as believable as possible, something this story's well-known for at times, she either should've taken action and tried to prevent the cheating that led to the divorce from happening in the first place OR she should've found herself another man, one or a few rebounds before that too, and moved on with her life.
    The second option sounds like a better and more realistic possibility on how 
an attractive woman like her would've acted in her case, and it'd be understandable why so... wouldn't blame Allison if she did just that, on the contrary, I'd defend her cuz it's a normal human reaction, a better one than crying and trying to drink herself to sleep and/or be depressed about it.
    Might be wrong on this, but that's what I think about this topic.