Originally posted by: aye-masakalii
Wellll...can't blame him for being distracted by messy haired Aru now can we? He's certainly a distracting sight.
Jokes apart, I can't comment on time or headspace because I find it hard to put myself in his shoes in that moment. I am not married/committed, but if I extrapolate the situation and imagine how I would react when confronted by a sight that potentially seems like someone dear to me has betrayed me...my first reaction would be denial. Try to discredit what I see somehow because the alternative is so heartbreaking. Here, had he paused for 2 seconds to either take in the complete scene or just hear his wife out, things would have been clear. Instead, he jumped to the worst possible scenario, of which the evidence was INCREDIBLY flimsy, and blew it completely out of proportion with his subsequent article. It felt like conformation bias- he already had his mind made up, and it registered information that supported his perception, and discarded information that didn't.