While I agree with you that many people use tv and movies as templates for how a relationship “should” go whether consciously or subconsciously, Joe’s character is so deeply scarred by his childhood abandonment issues that he has no other template from which to draw.
While I agree with you that many people use tv and movies as templates for how a relationship “should” go whether consciously or subconsciously, Joe’s character is so deeply scarred by his childhood abandonment issues that he has no other template from which to draw.