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I am so relieved that Ashley is free of David. Yes, she was cold to him. But it was all his doing. Just because he wasn't as frenetic as Sam didn't make him any less of a creeper. The trouble with David is that he's two extremes. On one side, he claims he's desperately in love with Ashley, but on the other, whenever she does something that upsets him, he freaks out and gets really angry. Remember in season 1 when Jamie wasn't into Doug? She told him, and he dealt with it, and they both moved on. But when Ashley tried to admit the same, David suddenly got really angry at her. Ashley was so guarded around David because any disagreement on her part would only provoke David into being emotionally manipulative, and try to make her feel bad with his aggressiveness. David never knew when to calm down and chill. He was always pressuring Ashley, and he couldn't just relax and try to let things take their course. And when she admitted that she wants a divorce, he acted like a child -- constantly showing her pictures of them together and asking if she wanted them, and throwing a hissy fit on his way out the door. A telling thing was when, several weeks in, David claimed he loved Ashley. Mind you, this was after weeks of cold fish, establishing that either David was lying, or simply naive. Honestly, David so strongly desired marriage that he became desperate and over-aggressive. It didn't matter to him who he was married to, so long as he was married. Both David and Sam are too childish to be married.

I registered just to say this: stop being so hard on Ashley. Nothing she's done warrants anger on this level. It's not David's looks that are necessarily unattractive, it's his personality. I've met people like David before, and they are extremely clingy, highly expectant types. It's clear even from the first episode that David wanted a full wife right away, when realistically, no matter who he was paired off with, there would have been initial reluctance and the need to work things out. David's puppy-like behavior clearly indicates that he just wanted intimacy right off the bat. He's a "teleporter", willing to go directly from stranger to spouse. Ashley's more of a staircase, who needs all those intermediary steps. Take for example the ferris wheel bit. Ashley started warming up when they were just hanging out and being friends. Unfortunately, he then attempted to jump past friends immediately. Honestly, if David would have just stopped with all the "she's my wife" expectations and just concentrated on being friends with her, things would have worked out better. Ashley did warm up to him when he was simply friendly, and they could have taken it from there. But no, David somehow feels like Ashley is wrong for wanting to take things slow. The tackle? Ugh, what an idiotic maneuver. How he expected that to work on anyone not completely in love with him is beyond me. To be honest, I very much distrust David, and I don't blame Ashley for feeling unsafe around him. David has no social competence, and his expectations and creepy affection are the primary problems in the relationship.