
I really hope Maki finds a girlfriend of her own that's NOT Midori. Midori is the true coward. Someone needs to slap her. She knows what she's doing. She needs to stop using Maki for emotional support. They may have been friends before, but the lines have already been crossed a long time ago.

I feel like she doesn’t like her life and is romanticizing her memories of a past with maki since she’s so depressed right now. I think she really did and does have feelings for maki but on top of all those things are internalized homophobia and self hate. She wanted a “normal” happiness and life but once she got it she hates it....because it’s not actually what she wants. Maybe she would want to marry a man and have a kid...but she doesn’t want to marry this man and have this kid right now. She would be happier if she was marrying maki because maki is better than her husband and loves her and respects her more than her husband, but she’s not emotionally ready for anything right now but feels trapped. A kid is real...a marriage isn’t easy to dissolve, she’s in too deep to something she keeps realizing and ignoring that she doesn’t want and isn’t ready for. She has a lot to figure out.

I agree with your whole statement! Before any relationship can begin, Midori does need to find out who she is and regain control of her life again. However, I foreshadow, Midori and Maki having an emotional affair, later becoming sexual (ergo her cheating on her husband) and Midori going back and forth in her head wondering what she wants to do...I hope I'm wrong though ;_; Maki deserves better.
When that teacher made that comment and the older brother turned around, I thought we were gonna have another fatality (⊙…⊙ )