My favourite tragedy
Character A, who is very aware of always causing trouble and burning bridges, decides to finally gift character B the peace of their absence because “B is better without them (A) anyway”
VS
Character B, who just wants them there, even if they burn it all to the ground… but “B doesn’t want to force them (A) to stay and certainly not tie them down, keeping them from living their dream.”
Nobody is inherently wrong for their wants or coming to these conclusions and you can’t really blame either of them for not wanting to hurt the other by pressuring them into an unpleasant conversation … or worse they DO have one but they talk past each other so bad that their conclusions about the other is just supported and but both are just so miserable without one another.
Like … it’s SO realistic: not talking about something you believe both of you already know for a fact; so why hurt each other or yourself more by saying it out loud? Just to make it more real and painful? When you can just let the other live? When you can just pretend you’re both fine and don’t miss each other as much as you do? You lived without them before ! You can do it again! Right?
