totally agree.
It burns me too because you can see how Alex is even more invested in the relationship, despite everything that happened. Cole is a piece of work; I hardly liked his character before because he was so shallow. I really don’t like him now and I hope Alex finds out.
exactly. and the funniest thing to me is that Cole was the one who comes to Alex first, bullshiting him that he was "in love" with him and point a gun at him over "cheating" while Cole can easily cheat himself and not feel any guilt about it, and worse he can easily decide to dump Alex for some other dude he meets after one month that he does not even know! it drives me crazy on how much hypocrite Cole is!
Right?? He’s such a hypocrite! I want Alex to leave him.
I think this whole toxicity label has gotten the best of most readers, so they can’t even recognize a good character when they see one just because the general relationship isn’t healthy. And in this case, it is Cole’s fault.
Alex did pull a prank on Cole in the first season when he lied that he cheated, and that was only to get a point across to Cole that he wasn’t interested in anyone else but him. Granted, he could’ve gone about it differently then maybe Cole wouldn’t have tried to threaten him.
But he isn’t a bad bf to the point people want to justify Cole’s cheating?? Cole is a horrible person and the issues he has with Alex are because of his projected insecurities. It’s not that he can’t have a healthy relationship with Alex, but he really does have him on a high pedestal and still thinks Alex is too good for him (which he actually is). Alex has expressed wanting to do other things with Cole — more than just the sexual — but all Cole has ever wanted was to get dick slapped and fucked raw. So Alex just follows suit.
Cole needs to sort out his personal issues before he gets into another relationship, because even if he were to get with Brad things would still go south.