- Joined
- May 5, 2020
Thing is, Phil could be filling in the gaps in his free time because being with Katherine isn't even an option. And I think that's exactly how it is, because his mood has been shit for a long time. Again, nothing he says ever displays a healthy relationship, especially the stuff that sounds like it might actually be true. With his imagination being as shit as his mood, I have to assume that it's because they have very little interaction, and he just barely manages to conjure any lies out of it. Like I often say, she gives him nothing to work with. That's very relevant when it comes to the pigroach.Just adding onto this, but when would they even have time to do stuff together? Not in the morning, Phil rolls out of bed and stumbles into the streaming office. They probably have dinner during the break, but we've also seen Phil's champion account active right when the stream ends, so even if they are together, I can't imagine they're having meaningful conversations or anything. Then he's back on the stream. Might spend some time together after the evening stream, but again, not exactly a lot of time for substantial interactions. It sounds like they sometimes watch a YouTuber together, that's something I guess. And given he's prowling twitter at 2 in the morning, I'm guessing there aren't any late night conversations between the two of them.
Now that doesn't necessarily mean she's outright avoiding him, but at the very least, I think it shows she's not going out of her way to spend time with him. It might not seem like much, but the fact she's apparently staying in during Phil's day out is very telling. Again, it's probably not malicious on her part, I doubt she gives it much thought at all, but her choosing not to even go grocery shopping with him for an hour isn't an indicator of a healthy relationship.
Phil is also really, really bad at verbally hiding stuff. I could believe Khet doesn't want him posting pictures of them together and maybe she even asks him not to talk about her, but this is Phil we're talking about. I think if they were legitimately doing stuff together, he'd slip up more and say things like "Khet and I watched X." That's why the few times he does mention they were actively doing stuff together really stands out. Well, that and the stuff is always pretty weird, like listening to gaming music or watching LPs. Or more normal examples, when he repeats Khet's complaints about her job. If those were happening more frequently, I'd use those as examples that they are spending time together, but they're so few and far between it makes it seem like it's (for Phil) a monumental event that is worth noting. It's one of the side effects of having a hermit lifestyle, it's so easy to tell when something outside the norm happens because Phil will bring it up and make it seem like it was a significant thing because, to him, it really is.
Which is why I think she's still there, and avoids him. I find it hard to believe that her departure from the streams including such a vanishing from his life period, is a coincidence. And I don't think Mr. Mature Adult With A Wife is the one neglecting to spend time with said wife. He tends to do things simply to generate talking material, when it's easy and strokes his e-peen the way an apparent relationship does. Say what you will about what he had with Leanna, you couldn't deny they were a couple, and no matter his motivation, Lumpy was living up to that in a way he doesn't seem able to with Katherine.
But he WAS, back when she partook in streams. Those may have been cringe-worthy, but they demonstrate what it's like when the pigroach is getting what he wants. They show that he wants to spend time with Kat, if only to make it easier to sell his LARPing. They show that he's not happy with things appearing such a way that threads like this have so many pages, and it bleeds into the main thread often. Obviously he does shit to contribute to it, most prominently his late nights on Twitter, as those are solid proof that when he says he has no time, he's lying.
[Speaking of which, if he does permanently drop the night streams one day, like he seems to be setting up for, things should get interesting, because if Kat isn't avoiding him, there should be an uptick in credibility in his stories.]
But with him doing that, and it be highly unlikely that he just doesn't care about hanging with Kat even for LARPing reasons, there's no other explanation to me. Especially with her bowing out of their shopping days, for reasons Phil neglects to say, but supposedly not out of anything else on his days off. And the concept of her bringing stuff home from work being non-existent for no stated reason.