chuck & blair should’ve never gotten back together

i’m on my third rewatch and idk if it’s my frontal lobe developing, but as much as i love a passionate slightly toxic love, the hotel scandal is too much to get past.

it’s bad enough that chuck traded blair for the empire, but the gaslighting he does afterwards is downright repulsive. “nobody forced you to go meet jack.” “you didn’t even know about the trade”. WELL OF COURSE NOBODY FORCED HER. SHE LOVES YOU AND WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE. i felt so bad for Blair because she was genuinely questioning herself and wondering if she was more in the wrong than Chuck was. he made it seem as though Blair wanted to sleep with Jack and winning his hotel was just a byproduct of her fulfilling her true desires.

I truly don’t know how they move past this & I guess I have to remember I’m discussing 2 troubled 19 year olds but my goodness…