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Major red flag. There are ways to make it known you don't like a partner's smoking habit, and his way was not it. Sideshow Bob put his controlling tendencies on display for all to see. It starts with the cigarettes, and before you know it, he is dictating what the woman in his life can and can't wear, where she can and can't go. Octavia needs to toss his number out the window and never let there be contact again.

Karma might get a stay of execution if RLC fill an empty bed or two in B4/B7 this side of Christmas. If not, there is now nobody else left up on the hill for him to smother but her. I really don't think he would be stupid enough to try for Nelly on camera - not unless it is some kind of scripted theater everybody is in on.

northguy isn't saying the nicknames themselves have a transphobic meaning, he is saying the use of any negative nicknames is people being transphobic. Or in other words, people don't like Daytona just because they are transphobic people and this is why they're using negative nicknames instead of using Daytona. Now, if we apply that same logic to northguy, it must be that northguy only likes Daytona because Daytona is trans. Which is itself transphobic, because northguy's like for Daytona would either be out of pity or a fetish.

She took some kind of key off her chain and left it with Alberto. Maybe that was at least the final time she lets herself into the apartment? But I think it maybe wasn't the door key at all, because it looked like she had to make sure she was passing him the correct one.

It was said on the night of Martina's party that Taco was going with Alberto to his new house for the weekend and that Martina would return to the apartment to collect Taco (+ more of her things?) once all were back from the house. I didn't see if Alberto returned when Taco and Juliet did. But Martina herself has now arrived at the apartment.

Only two pages in and already poor bachelor pad era Alberto is being labelled boring & never home. I propose an new RLC spin-off: realrenovationcam.com We can all watch some *actual* paint dry.

I didn't need a goodbye from Martina. I would have been satisfied enough by just seeing her walk out the door for the new chapter that I've spent the last couple of years seeing she desperately needed. That she did say goodbye is a nice bonus. I wish her all the happiness. Seeing her dance in the kitchen never failed to make me smile and I'll miss catching those silly little moments. Goodbye to Taco too, who was the real Lord of this manor.

When was the last time she was spotted? I thought I was going to see M get a visitor today but it was the just the delivery man(?) with the spiffy new bike, as you described it.

I'm presuming Martina did actually sleep elsewhere last night and returned early this morning? She looked to have already been in the apartment for a while before I noticed her. I did see that M&J slept in the bed, for once. And that nobody slept on the couch. But I never thought to check the guest room. After watching her leave with Taco last night, I was surprised to see either again so soon. That she came back to the apartment with the dog in tow makes me think her new place either isn't suitable for leaving him alone during the daytimes or she is trying to get him gradually used to the new place before she leaves him alone there. His own presence in the apartment surely isn't a RLC contractual obligation 😂 I do think her continued presence maybe is, though (among other factors).