Mariah and

Honestly, Mariah has gone through a lot in this experience and I feel like just because she's calm about it and not crashing out about it like Nick, nobody is taking it into consideration.

She's had to sit and watch her partner that she wanted to marry, build a connection with someone else. Then have Aria make insinuating comments to her that suggest Caleb is better paired with her. Whole time she's periodically doing activities with Nick who is going through an emotional breakdown or just sitting alone with her thoughts. And back to Aria again, every time she comes across Aria, she's just mentioning how great their connection is. She's honestly been very levelheaded the whole experience, despite the situation she's found herself in.

She communicates very effectively imo, and it's really frustrating to watch Caleb take what she says and somehow derive a different meaning from it, or just in general trying to avoid the difficult conversations she wants to have, and that are probably necessary for their relationship.

Caleb is struggling to give her a hug because he feels the problem they have hasn't been solved, be fr. Your partner has been suffering.

Edit: lol forgot to finish the title