"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side"
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The intent feels less like poetry and more like a confession of fatigue. She’s naming a dynamic where clarity is treated as naive, where every gesture has a shadow meaning, and where the couple’s shared reality is determined by inference. The phrase “always about” signals pattern, not a one-off misunderstanding: this is a relationship organized around subtext, with emotional attention diverted to decoding, managing optics, and anticipating the next hidden angle.
Culturally, it lands in a moment when we’re trained to read people like feeds: what they didn’t like, what they posted indirectly, what they meant by a pause. Dawson’s wording echoes that social-media logic of the “not obvious” being the truer story, a paranoid romanticism where indirectness is mistaken for depth. The line works because it refuses a clean villain; it’s not “you lie” or “I’m insecure,” it’s “we live in the sideways.” That “our” matters: she implicates herself in the structure, acknowledging that the relationship’s problem isn’t a single betrayal but an agreed-upon habit of living between the lines.
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| Topic | Relationship |
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Dawson, Rosario. (2026, January 16). It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-like-our-relationship-is-always-about-the-136311/
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Dawson, Rosario. "It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-like-our-relationship-is-always-about-the-136311/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-like-our-relationship-is-always-about-the-136311/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.







