As far as she saw it, he'd be doing her a great favor getting her back to a place where she could better help with the situation. Rachel also figured that together they could come up with a plan and that she could let him help her with reminders and maybe they could even check in monthly about their finances. While being rescued isn't an appealing thought, learning who to budget together is. It's a terribly boring thing, that's a reality to owning a home and having a life together, so naturally she's charmed by the novelty of it.
Her cheeks turn red as he nudges her and makes the comment about that being a married couple kind of thing, and of course...that really makes sense, but did it matter? She knew there were lots of married couples who screwed each other over in debt, and plenty of couples who weren't married who didn't. Thankfully that back and forth was going on silently in her head. "I mean, yes, uhm, that makes sense." Though marriage was a natural progression in relationships like this, she didn't want to presume. "Joint credit cards definitely should be for marriage." Right?
Luckily, he brings her back around with a decidedly less embarrassing comment, but perhaps less settling one. She brought her nail up to her teeth to chew on it gently as she thought about how to respond, or even why she'd been so scared at all.
"I guess I just thought it was going to lead to a big argument, where you get upset with me and I desperately try to defend myself whether I'm right or wrong, because I just don't want you to be mad at me." That was how she'd been in other relationships. It was even how she'd been back in high school with him, trying to defend a music video she really had no right to defend because she had been in the wrong. Finn had a tendency to get frustrated with her when she was careless and depending on the gravity of her carelessness he'd often step away and not talk to her. They always came back together, but she hadn't wanted to get into a fight, or hear from him how much she'd messed up. It wasn't that Jesse hadn't done the same, but Jesse got mad in a different way.
"I really shouldn't be so nervous. You've never lost your temper with me." She reaches down to place a hand on his knee. "Sorry, I sometimes forget we are grown adults figuring this out together. I guess I am still struggling with the high school mentality of breaking up being just around the corner." Which was a sharp contract to her fantasies of joint credit cards.
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Her cheeks turn red as he nudges her and makes the comment about that being a married couple kind of thing, and of course...that really makes sense, but did it matter? She knew there were lots of married couples who screwed each other over in debt, and plenty of couples who weren't married who didn't. Thankfully that back and forth was going on silently in her head. "I mean, yes, uhm, that makes sense." Though marriage was a natural progression in relationships like this, she didn't want to presume. "Joint credit cards definitely should be for marriage." Right?
Luckily, he brings her back around with a decidedly less embarrassing comment, but perhaps less settling one. She brought her nail up to her teeth to chew on it gently as she thought about how to respond, or even why she'd been so scared at all.
"I guess I just thought it was going to lead to a big argument, where you get upset with me and I desperately try to defend myself whether I'm right or wrong, because I just don't want you to be mad at me." That was how she'd been in other relationships. It was even how she'd been back in high school with him, trying to defend a music video she really had no right to defend because she had been in the wrong. Finn had a tendency to get frustrated with her when she was careless and depending on the gravity of her carelessness he'd often step away and not talk to her. They always came back together, but she hadn't wanted to get into a fight, or hear from him how much she'd messed up. It wasn't that Jesse hadn't done the same, but Jesse got mad in a different way.
"I really shouldn't be so nervous. You've never lost your temper with me." She reaches down to place a hand on his knee. "Sorry, I sometimes forget we are grown adults figuring this out together. I guess I am still struggling with the high school mentality of breaking up being just around the corner." Which was a sharp contract to her fantasies of joint credit cards.