OH WOW that took longer than I expected. Missing the bus sucks. :(
ANYWAY.
An important part of Pink's canon is his romantic relationships (or... relationship) and his difficulty with them. You can blame that on his mother, in large part. She was very smothering, and he ended up having kind of freudian thing going on, and a lot of difficulty relating to women in non-mother terms.
It may not shock you that there is a song about it. (HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvIUHw31js)
I figure he was only really able to have a relationship of substance once she died (and even then, not very well) and wasn't there to disapprove of his choices anymore. His wife, Judy, was a family friend, and when he had his first breakdown back in 68, she heard about it and helped get him back in an even keel. (Replacement mother figure, anyone?) They started seeing each other after that, and married within a couple years. She initiated most of it.
We aren't shown a lot of their relationship in its better times, only as it goes sour. I like to assume they were happy, though, when Pink was in a better state of mind. But as he got more stressed out and burnt out, he grew distant, uncommunicative. He took more drugs and cheated on her while touring. They probably argued, and he probably got violent during those arguments.
I really cannot, at all, blame Judy for cheating on him.
He, of course, did, though. He perceived that there was a problem with the relstionship, but was too absorbed with his own issues to face up to it, hoping that if he ignored it, it would go away, and not seriously expecting her to leave him. When he finds out she's cheated on him, that's the big event that leads him to giving up (however briefly?) on other people, and completing his Wall.
In the City, he has pursued no romantic attachments, and very likely will not, for a very long time. He's still recovering from a hell of a psychologically shattering breakup, after all. I would like him to, eventually, but it's not really something I can expect to happen anytime soon. Poorly-thought-out drunken flings are a go, though! :D
(On a related note, I tend to treat him as a slight bisexual/heteroflexible, who usually denies and represses his attraction to guys, and is more than a little homophobic. There is no canonical basis for this (beyond the homophobia), but the psychology of that sort of thing interests me.)
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ANYWAY.
An important part of Pink's canon is his romantic relationships (or... relationship) and his difficulty with them. You can blame that on his mother, in large part. She was very smothering, and he ended up having kind of freudian thing going on, and a lot of difficulty relating to women in non-mother terms.
It may not shock you that there is a song about it. (HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvIUHw31js)
I figure he was only really able to have a relationship of substance once she died (and even then, not very well) and wasn't there to disapprove of his choices anymore. His wife, Judy, was a family friend, and when he had his first breakdown back in 68, she heard about it and helped get him back in an even keel. (Replacement mother figure, anyone?) They started seeing each other after that, and married within a couple years. She initiated most of it.
We aren't shown a lot of their relationship in its better times, only as it goes sour. I like to assume they were happy, though, when Pink was in a better state of mind. But as he got more stressed out and burnt out, he grew distant, uncommunicative. He took more drugs and cheated on her while touring. They probably argued, and he probably got violent during those arguments.
I really cannot, at all, blame Judy for cheating on him.
He, of course, did, though. He perceived that there was a problem with the relstionship, but was too absorbed with his own issues to face up to it, hoping that if he ignored it, it would go away, and not seriously expecting her to leave him. When he finds out she's cheated on him, that's the big event that leads him to giving up (however briefly?) on other people, and completing his Wall.
In the City, he has pursued no romantic attachments, and very likely will not, for a very long time. He's still recovering from a hell of a psychologically shattering breakup, after all. I would like him to, eventually, but it's not really something I can expect to happen anytime soon. Poorly-thought-out drunken flings are a go, though! :D
(On a related note, I tend to treat him as a slight bisexual/heteroflexible, who usually denies and represses his attraction to guys, and is more than a little homophobic. There is no canonical basis for this (beyond the homophobia), but the psychology of that sort of thing interests me.)