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Date Posted: 18:37:16 08/04/05 Thu
Author: Rosie
Author Host/IP: 170.97.167.60
Subject: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
In reply to: sparkle- I know I rarely delurk, but it popped in my head 's message, "So, did anyone ever find out who William the Poet was?" on 21:42:30 08/03/05 Wed

I felt bad for both, for I like both Buffy and Riley. In regard to their break-up, I didn't feel more sympathetic toward either one.

Riley screwed up - not just because he visited the vamp whore. He screwed up when he failed to let Buffy know how he felt about her emotional distance from him. He also screwed by trying to revolve his life around her, in the first place.

Buffy screwed for a good number of reasons. First, she began dating Riley for the wrong reason. She used him as "Rebound Guy", after Angel's departure and Parker's treatment of her. Two, she also used him in some desperate attempt to have a "normal" relationship, after her romance with Angel. She literally pegged him as her "Joe Normal". So basically, she used him on two counts. She also treated him as fine china after the Initiative doctors removed the last of Maggie Walsh's drugs from, failing to realize that he was already an experienced demon hunter . . . probably just as experienced than herself. And worst of all, she had emotionally distanced herself away from him.

But in the end, Buffy and Riley failed as a couple because deep down, their personalities were too similar . . . and too different. They were both introverts with quirky senses of humor. Yet, their moral and philosophical outlooks were too different to find a common ground.

It just didn't work.

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[> [> Yep, there really weren't any bad guys in this relationship -- Eurydice, 20:24:07 08/04/05 Thu [1] (141.154.25.241)


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