What?

tashi and patrick both let art spit his gum out in their hand

and with art, the most obvious example is when he tells tashi about how he asks her to say she'll still love him if he loses. just to be clear, in this household we are under the impression that all three of them are in love. tashi does love art. she also loves tennis. she knows art can be the best it's why she pushes him so much. yeah, there's the angle of living vicariously through him but tashi has always believed that art had it in him even before standford and her injury. so, her refusing to say that and going as far as to say she'd leave him if he lost was her pushing him to be great. (she's dead wrong for this btw. love her down but this moment was her lowest for me. yes when her refusing to say she'd love him regardless of the consequence and not being kinder about him retiring is worse to me than her cheating with his [ex]bestfriend/ her ex boyfriend). she doesn't want him to lose. she goes as far as to sleep with patrick to ensure it (also because she's in love with patrick). then, art bringing up his retirement, he clearly wants a deeper convo about this but she shuts it down. she has deeper feelings about art's retirement but she won't talk to her husband about it, even when he's opening the door to it. it's very ironic how much tashi brings up how little patrick has grown when she communicates the same way she did when she was like nineteen

in a world where throuples were more accepted these three could be happy together and the movie would have no conflict

art is sorta giving possessive insane s/o. odk maybe the conflict of this story wouldn't have been a conflict if throuples were more common