Bittersweet. Doesn't make my heart hurt like these kinds of stories usually do (the characters' own halfhearted reactions, especially on Lauren's part, may have something to do with that). I went into this thinking that Lauren didn't want to have sex with Chip because he valued the romantic aspect of their relationship, but somewhere along the way I realized it had a lot more to do with his own hangups and that their relationship was destined to fail. As an aside, I'm usually against cheating but in this case I felt that it was not only justified, but it didn't even match up to the emotional and psychological abuse Lauren knowingly put Chip through. It would be nice if after this Chip could finally find and settle down with a genuinely loving partner. As for Lauren, as he himself said he probably isn't going to change, and, as we saw at the end of the comic, he'll probably go back to having one night stands with strangers. Can't say that bothers me in the slightest.
Bittersweet. Doesn't make my heart hurt like these kinds of stories usually do (the characters' own halfhearted reactions, especially on Lauren's part, may have something to do with that). I went into this thinking that Lauren didn't want to have sex with Chip because he valued the romantic aspect of their relationship, but somewhere along the way I realized it had a lot more to do with his own hangups and that their relationship was destined to fail. As an aside, I'm usually against cheating but in this case I felt that it was not only justified, but it didn't even match up to the emotional and psychological abuse Lauren knowingly put Chip through. It would be nice if after this Chip could finally find and settle down with a genuinely loving partner. As for Lauren, as he himself said he probably isn't going to change, and, as we saw at the end of the comic, he'll probably go back to having one night stands with strangers. Can't say that bothers me in the slightest.