This isn't exactly a book trope; this is more like a catfish trope.
For those who don’t know, Catfish was a reality TV show on MTV that started as a documentary. Basically, people reach out to our hosts, Nev Schulman and Max Joseph (Kamie Crawford in later seasons) to look into people they’ve been dating online and see if they’re the real deal instead of some stranger using another person’s pictures to impersonate them.
So my thing is and what I’ve noticed watching the show is when the catfish victim cheats on their partner with the catfish, only to find out that the catfish was their partner the entire time and they get hurt and upset that they got played and deceived by the catfish.
Like okay, I get that the catfish victim is hurt and upset that they were manipulated and lied to, but my people in Christ. Y'ALL AIN'T INNOCENT EITHER.
Why are YOU hurt and mad that your partner caught YOU going behind their back talking to other people, starting intimate relationships and online emotional affairs with niggas on the internet, and were WILLING to leave your partner of YEARS for some random mutha fuckas you met on Beyonce's internet who you started talking to and falling for for like 2 months at minimum. YOU just showed where your loyalties are.
"Come on, Lizzie. Look on the bright side. It just showed that the victim fell in love with their partner all over again."
Okay. That's cute and all. BUT THEY WENT ON BEYONCE'S INTERNET LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T THEIR PARTNER. LIKE DID THEY HAVE TO LOOK FOR LOVE FROM ANOTHER PERSON?
Does the partner have to be a different person to keep the person they love? And what's crazy is that a lot of these catfish victims straight up speak so highly about the catfish while also putting down their current partners, but the moment they find out that the catfish was their partner the whole time, they double down and try to fix the relationship.
This is repackaged cheating with several leaps.
This is the one few moments where the catfish is the actual victim coz they still want to be with the "catfish victim" and try to make things work. I mean okay, pop off sis. If y'all want to work things out and it does end up fixing your relationship and bringing y'all close. Then I'm happy for you.
But ehhhh. There's no coming back from that. I'm sorry.
Love? Gone
Relationship security? Left the chat.
Redemption? We don't know them?
Trust? Stepped on, chopped, thrown in a blender, incinerated, and Thanos snapped out of existence.
Like, make it make sense.
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