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- Oct 27, 2021
Earlier I watched Unicorn Pondue's cut-down version of the 5-hour stream.
Unpopular opinion and caveat: I'm not saying it's healthy and balanced, and I am not saying either both of them aren't opportunistic, but: I think they actually enjoy each other. They have a patter. Childish patter, but they both think it's funny to call her a penguin and joke about her waddling around the airport while he takes care of everything and just wrangles her toddler-attention-span wandering and gets her buckled into her plane seat.
Contrast Bibi, who just looked mortified and miserable all the time, or Nader, who requires being the psychological and physical dominant (ick, sexually, too, but I mean in terms of control/leader). Salah mostly seems to tolerate and be amused by her being her, or nopes out without arguing when she's on a tear, though after a couple years together they seem to be getting to the point where he will push her a little. She insists on being a child, and he likes being goofy with her and seems mostly unbothered having to be a sort of caretaker.
I'm being too charitable, probably, but stepping back from exasperation/being critical of her and her constant cycling* and fibbing, they seem to be somewhat egalitarian and easy in their relationship (I mean, it's maybe because he doesn't seem to get mouthy or snippy when he's irritated). Of course she WILL select when she will follow and when she will rebel with "I can do whatever I want; no one can tell me what to do."
*lol two minutes after I wrote that while watching, she talked about her "rapid cycling."
Idk. Is it odd? Yes. Is she difficult? Lord, I can't imagine, especially sharing a tiny apartment and in a situation that it's too hot to stand going anywhere else.
I agree that was a window on what she can really be like. Total lack of self-discipline and id-driven + cranky when id is anxious. I get disorders, addictions, whatever, but all she had to do was to go to fucking bed. Sure, mope, gnash your teeth, stomp your feet, be sulky and sad and mad, feel deprived and upset...but anyone can do it.
Are they a healthy combo? Uhhhh...not sure that's the equation for Chantal. She's going to do her, no matter what. She wants a mate, to show she has a mate, and indulgence. Salah, if he finds her amusing and isn't dragged down into her quicksand, is the best kind of combo for her, and she's lucky to find it. The benefits for him are, at a minimum, a seemingly independently self-supporting/ contributing woman, a companion whose needs are pretty clear (food, assurance, some time, and someone to goof around with without being required to take a leadership role) - and the benefits of being a married vs single non-citizen man in Kuwait.
