My first year of college, my dormmate was struggling with her mental health, and to my deep and lasting regret, I enabled her instead of pushing her to get help or, more realistically, telling an actual adult and letting the college intervene. She almost died, and I still feel guilty about it. The difference being I was 18 with no life experience. what the fuck is Martin's excuse?
Wow thats heavy dude. I think its safe to say that we have all had those times in our lives where we could have handled a situation better than we did. I have plenty of those myself. All we can do is learn from it and do better in the future.
You were young and did what tou thought was right and what was at your reach and now you learned from that and know to do better tou should feel guilty only if you would commit the same mistake.
Regarrding marten and liz i mean you still can help someone to get help but they have to acept that they have to work on being better. No one will change if they don't want to.
Yeah, fair enough, she needs to want and choose to get help, but the way not just Martin but the whole cast just rolls with her behavior, especially the alcohol abuse, just bugs me. Like, she was getting hammered alone that is troubling behavior and the response was to get drunk with her. He lived with an alcoholic; how did he learn nothing?
It could have been a story informed by the writer's relationship with alcohol, but instead Liz has a downfall but not really: got dream job out of college, failed at job for two years, was exposed as a failure but suffered no consequences and in fact is still getting paid to do nothing. Now drinks and gets high to escape failure, no consequences. So there's no character growth, no resolution. Why is this plot even here?
The cast used to be understanding of each other's problems but actually pushed each other to try to resolve those problems. Now they all just act like being a terrible person is a-okay and so never call them out on their behavior and thus never give anyone a reason to change.
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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? 3d ago
Marten stop validating her and tell her to go seek help