Don't love you yet but probably will

some light summer reading for shane - don’t mind his reading choices

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Rich celebrities have stylists. You can bet Rose had them. I truly do not think it has anything to do with making decisions or even really about style, except in the secondary level of Shane has no personal style and so the stylist is an immediate upgrade. I think it’s more that Shane hiring a stylist is him stepping into adulthood and deciding to stop being a passenger in his own life

The thing about being single into your late 20s, especially when everyone around you is marrying and having kids, is you feel trapped in a certain kind of suspended adolescence. In traditional patriarchal understanding, adult life starts when you get (heterosexual) married and start having kids. And that this is something that will just sort of happen for you naturally, especially if you’re the man. So before it happens you’re just kinda waiting.

My interpretation of Shane pre-Rose is that he’s stuck in that mode until Rose tells him hey, that’s not going to happen for you, you know that? You need to stop being in waiting room mode and actually live your life.