a good response, but i don't agree with the last part.
peetz, contrary to popular belief, did not live in his mom's basement pining for his ex "gf" his whole life before moving in with chantal. he was living with a roommate and he had a civil sort of mutually beneficial relationship with chantal where he would shoot the shit and go for food with her, while she took him to his mom's house or the comic store sometimes, and that was sort of it?? like yeah, chantal kind of ignored him and used him as an affirmation/attention machine, while he needed a sounding board for him to mumble his hot 2015 somethingawful takes but they had a symbiotic relationship and peetz at least liked her- remembering always that peetz likes chantal because he has the same non-judgemental quality that an autistic child has, in the way he doesn't see a person's fat or ugliness or even bad personality to a certain point.
so then chantal had to hot foot it out of malan's place and peetz was the only person who would sign a lease with her. it might seem like i'm rambling but what i'm getting at is that a year+ ago when peetz was living with his roommate he was not begging chantal "not to leave him alone", and he isn't now. peetz could go back to his old life with his old roommate and everything would be the same (if he had the capacity at this point). he wouldn't be emotionally shattered if their go as roommates didn't work out, just like he wasn't when she "cheated" on him.