Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me The panels on page 99 is a very important page with very important panels based on the theme of a toxic relationship. Although this page doesn’t seem much it tells us the attachment problems within a toxic relationship. Freddy’s line “All I can think is, please let it be true. Please let this be…” This quote underlines a very unspoken problem of a toxic relationship. A toxic relationship is very complicated as there is a lot of mental abuse within a toxic relationship. We see how much Freddy is attached to Laura to a very unhealthy amount. This isn’t very much talked about in a toxic relationship, because people often have a very difficult time moving on from their toxic partner because they always wish that they would come back to them. Everytime that Laura texts …show more content…
This gives Freddy no breathing room for Freddy to set her life straight, Laura knows that Freddy is very attached to her, so she knows she can come back anytime within a few months before Freddy moves on. As a result because of how Laura always comes back to Freddy, Freddy is manipulated into thinking that Laura thinks that Freddy is the one, as to why else would Laura come back every time? Toxic relationships have many forms of manipulation, one being is manipulating one other to think that you want them, this is done through abandonment and coming back which is shown in this book, and in this panel shows how it has worked on Freddy. In the visual panels we see the progression of abandonment as we see Laura give Freddy a kiss and leave her. The last image with line of “Maybe” and a picture of Laura, is a representation of Freddy’s attachment and wish for Laura to keep staying despite all the time Laura has broken up with her, and abandoned her there's always the maybe that Laura will come back. Because of this maybe Freddy is always waiting for Laura, this happens very often in a toxic relationship because it prevents