All that rhetoric around needing to work through your issues is such rubbish. You can't talk someone into being a decent person
Absolutely!
You can't force them to be what they aren't either - quiet people are quite people; chattery ones are chattery ones; and giving people are grieving and that takes as long as it takes.
I do get angry when they are pushing and goading people to "face their issues" - being introverted isn't an "issue" - it's a personality trait.
Being in a state of grief isn't an "issue" it's a painful experience. If Simon had a broken leg, no-one would be jabbing at it and saying - "It's about time you tried hopping on it" But because he has a broken heart they are constantly poking at him and telling him he has to confront it.
Surely the point should be to get along with someone and adapt to their needs as well showing them how to fulfil yours - meeting half way. I don't see much of that here.
Nadia knows she could leave if he was that bad. I think she’s flattered by his “alpha male/provider” role, although I think the blinkers are starting to come off.
I think that every time she comes close to telling him "it's off" he turns on the charm and she thinks "Oh - he's ok. He's just a bit traditional in his outlook" and she lets her guard down a bit.
I she has sex with him, I think he'll have decided he's "won" and will publicly drop her like the proverbial hot brick! He'll humiliate her, because he thinks she's humiliated him by holding him at arms length.