User blog comment:Jsmit186/Gumball Watterson Deserves Better (TAWOG Rant)/@comment-39106280-20191208135723/@comment-39106280-20191208214243

Well I wouldn't say strained really. Darwin is just having to emotionally accept and better himself that Penny is gonna get involed in some pats of Gumball's life but also that he not gonna get replaced, forgotten or left alone because of her. Also you do somewhat have to consider that Gumball in "The Romantic" has made some pretty poor mistakes that put Penny through a lot of grief but she still loved him anyways. So maybe she still loves him because of that resilance or she past the breaking point but either way it doesn't seem unreasonable to me.