This is probably a lot of unnecessary words for yet another drawing of these same two dudes smooching. (Patreon)

I think a lot of bad-relationship-stories just kinda show  the relationship bad all the time to villify one of the people involved and make them as unsympathetic as possible. Then the audience has a hard time understanding why the other person doesn't just break it off, because the former is irredeemale all the time. And when you see it from that perspective, it's hard to understand the balancing act between "I usually like to be around them and they are trying to be better to me, am I being unreasonable to expect them to be perfect all the time" and "The good times do not make up for the bad ones, it is not acceptable for them to treat me like that ever."

I think of Rock as the kind of guy who has a really bad track record of staying in sinking-ship relationships way longer than he should because not-taking-things-personally is such an ingrained personality trait of his that whenever someone seems sincerely sorry about something and seems to not be doing-the-thing-he-doesn't-like anymore he tends to give them a clean slate again.