Listen. I had my misgivings about all miscommunication tropes out there. Then I had to deal with my son and his girlfriend for 3 weeks over the holidays. Miscommunication is totally a THING that can drag on for 3 weeks (if not 7 goddamn whole months) if every participant is WILLING to avoid shit at hand to their utmost ability
OH I KNOW. ppl irl will avoid talking and conflicts most of the time. i know miscommunications are in fact very common irl. but i will still complain about it in fiction unless it's well done, then i won't mind it much. but the trope is usually done very lazily and just to bring needless conflict and drama. it usually doesn't bug me enough to stop reading something, but i might bitch a bit lool
having said that. your story sounds horrible and i'm sorry you had to deal with that. i hope they've figured it out by now! and yeah this shit can drag and even end relationships.
I wish I could answer this conclusively? We went out to eat, they whisper-argued the whole time, he apparently broke up with her the moment we got home, 10 minutes later she was cramming her belongings in her luggage while sobbing and trying to leave (like, in the dead of the night in winter, without knowing where to go, while her flight home was going the next day at 1pm (as scheduled from the start)). Just... utter mayhem for hours.
Like 4 hours later (me on my nnth cup of coffee to guard the door against underage emotional decision making on the fly) they were suddenly uh. Laughing, liberatedly talking, because apparently, they needed the cartharsis of a unrestrained nuclear reactor meltdown moment to finally talk turkey.
At this point I think it's the old old problem of "reality IS stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make SENSE"
yeah. but see? everything worked out after they finally talked it out. sadly it took an explosion to do it, but they figured it out. i'm happy for them. but that couldn't have been easy.
oh and yeah reality is stranger than fiction for sure. but it's reality so we can't say shit about it. in fiction we'll complain because in our brains it doesn't make sense. but life doesn't make sense really, so.
another couple that doesn't communicate lol
stop doing this to me y'all aren't even in the same place. if you don't communicate you won't see each other ever again dude.