"If you really loved me, you wouldn't give up on me." That sentence is a hostage negotiation disguised as love. The Reiners never gave up. Seventeen years. Eighteen rehab stints. Every boundary erased. Every line redrawn and crossed. Rob was simultaneously terrified of Nick and unable to separate from him. That's not caregiving — that's captivity. This episode is about the psychology that keeps people tethered to someone who's destroying them. The guilt trap. The sunk cost. The fantasy that the next attempt will be the breakthrough. And the hardest truth no one says out loud: some people never hit bottom because someone's always there to catch them. You can love someone and still refuse to let them consume you. Walking away isn't betrayal. It's survival. And for anyone who saw the signs and carries the guilt of not preventing the outcome — your knowledge was not consent. You're not guilty for seeing what you couldn't change.

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