#making up 18 years of hairstyles for Renee (bc she wont keep the rainbow fuckass bob forever) was also pretty fun

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ok I need to know more about the renison situationship.

Please understand that TERRIBLE is the key word in the Renison Terrible Situantionship premise.

So basically I remember a post Mari Dayurno made a while back about liking Renison when they are a mess and don't work. And I was like you know what? hell yeah. Because I love mess and I love terrible women and I'm always meaning to write more f/f.

The basis of the plot is that we are on present time, 2025, and 40-year-old Allison just finished signing her fourth divorce, while Renee has moved permanently back to the USA so she can spend more time with her aging mother, which is going to put them in each other's orbit once again. Problem is: ever since their senior year at Palmetto, they have been on a on-and-off again fwb relationship, usually broken up by periods of Renee leaving Allison with no prior warning (since they're just friends!) and Allison subsequently getting married out of spite and inviting Renee to be a bridesmaid. This does once lead into a bitchy makeout in a wedding gown shop dressing room (it's fine husband #2 was a bastard anyway).

It's like. Wouldn't it be fucked up if a woman that needs to be in a romantic relationship to feel worthy as a person fell in love with a woman that has intimacy issues so bad other people's feelings activate her fight or flight instincts and then they spent the next two decades twisting the knives in each other's wounds. And I should add that they both do maintain a somewhat healthy friendship and Allison, who is the POV character, actually does fall in love with (some of) her husbands and genuinely wants (most of) those relationships to work out. It's just that love sometimes can be a curse and they just keep coming back to each other as if it just might work out this time (they haven't tried to change or compromise on anything)(but Renee promises THIS time is different, she swears!!!!)

It does have a happy ending, but it's a little bit like that Reddit comment of, "you two need to stay together forever so you don't involve anyone else in this bullshit".