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They were on a break
Ross and Rachel were absolutely on a break at the time, and Ross was fairly certain Rachel was spending the night with someone else. He was absolutely in the clear for sleeping with that girl.
Which makes it frustrating that they focused on it being a break, because everything else Ross did was completely in the wrong.
He was overbearing and paranoid, regularly invading Rachel’s life to assert his dominance in front of guys who do not care. Rachel was regularly humiliated by him, and you can’t blame her from needing time to recover.
After the incident, Ross made bold lies straight to Rachel’s face, and spent the entire episode trying to keep it a secret. Finding out about the incident from Gunther was the icing on the cake of humiliation.
Then later, Ross told yet another lie to Rachel in pursuit of what he saw as easy sex with his dream girl, then claimed that he was justified for it because she was too wordy. And he only admitted his lie when he felt his ego was threatened.
Ross ruined the relationship because sleeping with the copy girl was the only thing he wasn’t in the wrong for.
I think “We were on a break!!” was just easier to portray and memorable. But yeah, doesn’t matter if they were on a break, what He did was still not good and Rachel were reasonable to not take him back.
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First time on lemmy I have blocked someone for a post. Thanks.
Relationship life is not a court case and bringing up words used mean very little. Sometime’s even tones supercede the meaning of the word. Empathy rules, and if the other party has no empathy for your understanding of what actually was communicated it can all be very hard. In this situation I would bet not only Rachel but most of us viewers, have little empathy for Ross’s understanding of the now status quo of their relationship.
TLDR: Ross acting dumb to not be in the wrong. 😜
