Okay, okay. I am not immune to the gay hockey show.
But I wanted to highlight this gif set because most that I have seen (understandably) stop after the Shane and Ilya interaction, and I am like, but wait! There’s more!
As someone who is realistically closer in age to Shane’s parents than to Shane, that exchange between his parents is golden. They’re repeating back information they heard, and they heard the “oh god I don’t want to define fuck buddy/just a physical relationship to my parents” version.
But what they are saying to each other here, Shane’s mom and dad is, basically, yeah, you two were fooling yourselves if you think it was just physical. We know the deal. You might not have known the deal but we do.
And you can argue with me about this, but I think his parents are right. I think in Shane and Ilya’s minds they thought or wanted to think it was merely physical (not that there is anything wrong with that, by the way!) but they each brought too much baggage and also showed too much too early. Shane almost by being there at all. Ilya, too.
Shane and Ilya are still catching up with their hearts and their words but Shane’s parents, who have more life experience, are watching this and thinking, and more importantly, SAYING, yeah, this is a decade long relationship. You don’t get here without going through all of what they have. His parents see it. They’re joking about it, but they see it.
That Shane and Ilya are still trying to dismiss that early part of their relationship is telling. That Shane’s parents don’t miss it is also telling. They had a million and one feelings. They just don’t say it. They didn’t say it.
But it’s obvious if you have lived long enough.
(Also Shane’s dad beginning with the phone charger speech killed me dead. 💀 It’s such a dad thing.)
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