a rant abt marvin & trinas relationship

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basically . i know that marvin is mainly seen as the bad guy, since he has like 50 songs in the musical about him being such a horrible person, lover, husband, etc to both trina and whizzer but they never talk about THEMSELVES . specifically trina. I LOVEEE trina but she has such a victim complex, she uses every single one of his faults, even tiny ones like being QUEER. like, what do you mean youre upset at him for being queer. i get being upset about a divorce but the reasoning she has is horrendous marvin isnt the best person either though,, he did use both trina and whizzer for his own pleasure and needs before realizing it was wrong. but, pretty early in the musical you can see him with mendell questioning it, especially with “you wanted to impress her, but impress her i did not” he was TRYING in their relationship despite him not feeling the same. he at least attempted, even if he was a bad person he tried. that can be countered by the somewhat misogynistic way he refers to whizzer and trina, almost like its instinct for him. he expects them to make the dinner and love him, all he wants is LOVE before he realizes its too late. ok back to trina OOPS trina is overall a very unstable person, which i feel like is obvious. every little mess up or mistake she makes messes her up really bad, and it seems like theres nothing she can do about it. both of them are so jealous of each others relationship, but trina is showed to be jealous first. even though she admitted to not thinking whizzer was too bad of a person, or even thinking porrily of whizzer, she just cant think about him in a friendly way because marvin is dating him, because marvin REPLACED her. which is not what i think he did personally but i do believe that is how trina saw everything. while grieving the relationship she was constantly trying to throw marvin under the bus, constantly brining up the fact hes gay I THINK TRINA HAS REEAALLYY BAD INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA.(not towards herself, towards marvin. i suspect this is how she was raised) she doesnt realize how wrong it is until whizzer is basically dead LOL now marvin. even when he was with whizzer he was also very jealous, i think he didnt want trina to move on so soon because he wanted her to stay with him, the “tightknit family” that he had crumbled when he saw trina get with his psychiatrist. the fact trina got with mendell also messed with him because he literally no longer had a psychiatrist, the one healthy way he could communicate got taken away by his ex wife. this doesnt at all excuse his actions, though. marvin is so so so SO jealous of mendell, which i get. even after getting divorced the love that two people had for eahcother, even if its just a little bit, is likely to surface after such a violent separation. obviously theyll argue and fight and rethink their relationship but marvin IMMEDIATELY goes to being jealous of trinas relationship. he convinced himself that trina only chose mendell because hes rich and hes a psychiatrist and hes better than marvin and this all goes to his head. which i think is pretty obvious during marvin hits trina wheres hes just go manic. hes ranting and screaming and hes overthinking everything, and that ends up in him breaking and hits trina. marvin hits trina is such a great example of how bad their relationship is. marvin is clearly so manic, everything is crumbling and when his two ex lovers begin to agree that hes such a bad person, he doesnt know what to do. trina quickly brushes this off and says that mendell will treat her well, and you think thatd be the end of the jealousy she experiences, right? NOPE. trina constantly talks about whizzer, how she wants to like whizzer but she cant because “her ex certainly does”. everything about marvin makes her angry. when marvin and whizzer get back together shes immediately upset and ranting about it, and mendell brings up the amazing question of. “Why do you care??” this question is so important, especially when looking at their relationship closely. why would trina care if marvin and whizzer are getting back together? at this point marvin is no longer jealous, since he relaized he loved whizzer all along (WOOP) and gets over trina, but trina is still salty.