If this was a few years ago, before Phil was afraid of intimacy due to his erectile dysfunction, I would have joked about him trying to larp as that typical bloke that fixes something in porn and Katherine can't find her wallet but his larp backfired because she was too daft to pick up on it. Now it's just sad because, you know, reality.
Their relationship is like some really bad depiction of a failing and dead relationship in some telenovela. It seems so bloody unreal. No honeymoon, fucks up her birthday horribly, fucks up Valentine's day and we can only guess what else he's done.
Good question mate and I would love to know how he thinks about that too. I mean it seems somewhat obvious that she is in it for the money since Phil does fuck all for her and she isn't expected to do fuck all either. I also think Katherine looks awful compared to Leanna, and even Leanna isn't some prize. So at least visual wise I don't think he upgraded.
I honestly don't know mate, I think he just sees her as a trophy that allows him to flex his adult life, relationship and family.
Their relationship is so fucking weird, it just doesn’t make any sense to me. There’s no way they’re intimate, just absolutely no way. It has to be a purely transactional relationship; one borne out of convenience and for Phil to uphold the image of being the successfully married mature adult.
All the things Nigel listed are things female are incredibly touchy about. A few years ago, I waited almost two hours upon waking up to congratulate my girl for her birthday… she was mad at me for the whole day (to be fair, I did forget but I had a gift and everything ready for her as well as a surprise delivery and organized a surprise dinner with her and all of her best friends).
In Phil’s situation, he’s foregone a honeymoon; doesn’t plan birthdays any different than doing the usual bullshit he’s supposedly doing on his day off; doesn’t plan shit for Valentine’s Day; they don’t seem to be celebrating their 1, 2, 3 years anniversary of their marriage; they spend an inconspicuously pathetic amount of time with each other; they have no shared interests besides playing video games; they don’t organize trips; they haven’t gone to Seattle even once; they don’t travel, either locally, nationally, or internationally (does Kat even have a passport?). They basically don’t do any of the shit normal couples do.
Then Phil is constantly trying to one up everyone else and
their shitty relationships compared with how good he’s got it.
I don’t even think the dude is getting laid more than a handful of times per year, and I’m being generous.
Just, incredibly fucking weird situation he’s stuck himself in. But just like he’s able to delude himself with concepts such as the “silent majority,” “pro fighting game player,” “successful,” “not being a shill,” I wouldn’t doubt for two seconds he’s convinced himself that what he’s experiencing with his fat wife is a successful relationship.
Hey, maybe we’re all wrong and two hermits found love together and are genuinely happy eating shitty food, playing games away from each other into their own respective “offices” for the majority of the year while maintaining a platonic relationship is a great situation for them. Wouldn’t surprise me given how much of a cuck Phil actually is.