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No. 3151
Love can blossom in many ways, and all of them can be as true as any other.
Perhaps a relationship may start by finding coping mechanisms and a form of escapism in one another, but that does not mean that it cannot equally have very earnest components to it all the same. And neither does it mean that it cannot mature into something more substantial, with strong feet planted firmly on the ground, so to say.
Personally, I find myself in agreement that Agahara and Suzuko, however consciously aware of it they may or may not be, have very much set themselves up with an arrangement of sorts in which they provide each other mutual escapism. I would not try to deny this; it is quite plainly observable.
Yet I also feel that there is a more substantial aspect to it as well, as they very clearly admire and love traits in the other that have little to do with that escapism. And, why, I see no reason at this point in time as to why this more substantial aspect of their relationship should not grow, mature and help both of them grow as time passes.
In this light, I also do not think that helping one another cope the way they do is necessarily anything bad. If that is something they need, then so long as that is not all their relationship is (which, as I said, I do not think is so), I believe there is nothing wrong with it.
And beyond even that, the two of them simply have to be excused for living in the age and the complicated situation which they find themselves in. Would it be favorable if both of them sought out a psychological therapist, or were not pushed into the rather extreme state of codependence which circumstance forced upon the two of them? Why, obviously. But those are not options available to either, I dare say.
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