>I'm not saying Lawrence and Condola were perfect/didn't have
>some bumps in the road like many new relationships do, but he
>was def still in communication with Condola as season 4 ended
>- right down to the night he and Issa hooked up and (briefly)
>rekindled their relationship.
Condola's drunk girl set the stage but she asked him about whether he and Issa would still be together if things worked out, but he never asked her. I mean that is THE dumbest relationship question to ask. He meshed fine with all her friends during a major family/friend holiday so it wasn't like he was acting sideways. She knew early on Issa's and Lawrence's connection, and chose to proceed. She was the least OK person with it, which is understandable, but Issa and Lawrence were playing it above board *shrugs*

>
>That hookup, and the subsequent curbing of both Condola and
>Nathan, wasn't some inevitable thing that needed to happen; he
>and Issa could have just cleared the air/settled their
>differences as peaceful exes without going there.
>
>In fact, even if they were overcome with attraction, they
>could've just fucked the one last time and moved on without
>disrupting their other prospects. This is especially evident
>given the way Issa did an abrupt 180 on Lawrence after all
>that fuss and, predictably as per her usual nonsense, made a
>beeline back to Nathan.
>
>Sorry, but I just feel like if we remove the fact that
>Lawrence loves/cares for Issa she's essentially been nothin
>short of a villain in this man's life. The cheating, the
>using, the inconsistency, etc. Reverse the genders and she's a
>textbook fuckboy lol

Lawrence wasn't SHIT when this show started. We enter the story with Issa having carried them for who knows how long? How long had he been depressed? She was already with a shitty non-profit, who's to say that what she ended up becoming was held back by being the only breadwinner at the time? Her sleeping with Daniel was the act but the decision to break up was made during her birthday, being at a crossroads of sort. The train had already left the station by the time Lawrence started to get his ass back in gear. The separation, messy parts and all, allowed them to come back together as much better people.