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"Girls wouldn&amp;#x27;t abandon us for a break without leaving us with some meaty relationship issues to discuss, and last night&amp;#x27;s finale didn&amp;#x27;t disappoint. (Read the full Obsessed recap here.) We took a deep look into the faces of some of our favorite couples, and we saw the demise of a once-treasured relationship and the reunion of two that had failed in the past (well, three if you count Jessa&amp;amp;#8217;s lifelong relationship with crop tops and probably vagina piercings). But even in the breakup, there was a door left open for the future. In Shoshanna&amp;amp;#8217;s tearful dumping of Ray, she screamed in frustration that she couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be the only thing he liked. Her suggestion? &amp;amp;#8220;You go to therapy and like, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll have a personal renaissance.&amp;amp;#8221; Hilarity of that line aside, her larger point was that while she couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t deal with Ray and his literal and professional case of the Grumpy&amp;amp;#8217;s now, he could change and she might be able to deal with him better and they can be in love in another time. Could Ray and Shosh really make it work someday? Of course, I hope so, since I really loved them together. But the whole concept of &amp;amp;#8220;working on yourself&amp;amp;#8221; so that someday you can really be with someone later? I&amp;#x27;m not sure I buy it. It&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of like, work it out together or will you please just get off me for good, right? Luckily, the other two girls are testing out that very theory for us. After dumping clingy Charlie and then seeing her own life fall apart, Marnie reunited with her newly successful (thanks to their breakup) ex. And after calling 911 to avoid her &amp;amp;#8220;stalker ex-boyfriend&amp;amp;#8221; Adam, Hannah found herself huddled in bed, waiting for him to run across Brooklyn (shirtless, natch) and rescue her in the most dramatic and Facespacey of gestures. But that doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t mean I think this whole time apart thing is going to actually work out for either of these couples... Here&amp;#x27;s our first problem: Marnie dumped Charlie for a kind of similar reason to Shoshanna dumping Ray. While Charlie has a generally more pleasant demeanor, he also had a serious case of &amp;amp;#8220;My favorite thing in the world is YOU.&amp;amp;#8221; Now that he got his own life and his own pretentious company and some very tight shirts, while Marnie lost her job and her friends and everything that was important to her, they&amp;amp;#8217;re having the hot sex they never had when all Charlie did was try to tenderly please her and write songs about her. But Marnie&amp;amp;#8217;s eventually going to get it together again (almost kind of), and I&amp;#x27;m not guaranteeing Charlie&amp;#x27;s company will fail, but like, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t invest in some start-up based on an app to block your ex&amp;#x27;s number where most of the employees seem to sit around accessorizing and making &amp;quot;Harlem Shake&amp;quot; videos or whatever. When the power dynamic shifts again, can their relationship survive it? Their mutual confession of love was utterly charming (&amp;quot;And eventually...I wanna watch you die&amp;quot;), and Charlie might really love Marnie, but I&amp;#x27;m not so sure about Marnie&amp;#x27;s feelings. I think she outgrew Charlie, but when she encountered struggles she never anticipated, she suddenly craved the comfort and safety of &amp;quot;settling down&amp;quot; in her old familiar relationship. His newfound status didn&amp;#x27;t hurt either, although it&amp;#x27;s too simplistic to say she&amp;#x27;s into his money. Even Charlie knows he&amp;#x27;s kind of an idiot to fall into this again, no matter how much he loves being the hero. And Hannah and Adam? God knows I could never predict anything either of these two will do, but I&amp;#x27;m oddly hopeful about their reunion. Since Girls hasn&amp;amp;#8217;t exactly overdone the knight-in-shining-armor trope before this episode, I really loved Adam&amp;#x27;s rescue mission here. Between his sweaty sighs and his red-rimmed eyes, someone give this dude all the awards, please. But as for their whole relationship, maybe their time apart has taught them that they might be the only two people who really get each other&amp;#x27;s strange clothing choices and deep psychological issues, but maybe their time with other people has shown them that they do need some balance and light so they don&amp;#x27;t just try to outdo each other with darkness. Or probably they&amp;#x27;ll just screw it all up in an even more epic fashion all over again. I can&amp;#x27;t wait for season three to find out how these new-old relationships pan out. In Girls and in life, do you think taking time apart can ever really change the course of a relationship? Or is a return to an old relationship always a step back for the people in it? Anyone have a story of a successful or failed relationship break and subsequent reunion? We were on a break!: *How Would Your Friends React If You Got Back Together With an Ex? *The Best Argument for Getting Back Together With an Ex, in One Adorable Video *6 Reasons You Shouldn&amp;#x27;t Get Back Together With Your Ex, Brought to You by Science, and 1 More, Brought to You by Me Photos: HBO"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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