Rob doesn’t seem to like Sophie right? His digs about bringing her down to earth, his comment of seemingly punishing her by living in that studio unless she asks family for money, him arguing with everything she says and always having to be right, and him having 0 tolerance for any conversation that matters to her. Either he just doesn’t like her, or there is one of those weird manosphere mindsets about her being young and needing to be directed.
Also though their relationship highlights a problem I’ve had with the 90DF universe for a while. Producers and edits heavily focus on the problems a couple has, and we have very few moments (if any) of seeing the good in any of these couples relationships which makes it impossible to root for almost anyone.
My take is that he’s attracted to women, but can’t emotionally connect with them. A lot of men are like this and it seems like they hate women, yet they continue dating women.
Very true. Abusive men I’ve known seemed to absolutely hate women, yet be also hyper-sexual in a controlling way or something. Very bad combo. No emotional connection.