Purple Lipstick

I'll tell you, I never have either. I just cannot fathom why they would be apart for that long. I think it's out of character for then to separate like that, for them to be apart so long, and frankly, out of character for her not to call him immediately and for him not to drop everything and run to the phone immediately when she did even if he couldn't defend her in his seat.

I can understand why perhaps she was not able to continue as his assistant when he was appointed a judge, though I think there would have been ways for that to have happened, too. On the same hand, being appointed to an appellate seat doesn't happen overnight, so I don't see why this wouldn't have been a part of some long-range plan that included them both. He would run for judge, which would involve a move if successful, so she would take a few months of settling them in and then find local work.

The only thing I could really think of that would be the ultimate angst fest would be that he steps into this seat and she takes the role of proper housewife which drives her bonkers after three months and she has to bail. But that just feels even more inaccurate than what they gave us, both in that she would leave that situation by leaving their relationship, and especially that they would have put her in that situation to begin with believing it could work long term.

None of this makes sense in the way I generally play in this sandbox, in that they are married by the time of or during the first season, and any variance of the storyline that involves them totally separated means, likely, divorce. Which seems completely out of character.

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