this makes so much sense. they had a 20 year long love on their backs. i love them so much...

This makes no sense. The story is supposed to be about escape, but he somehow decide to stay with the one how made him unable to live his dream and escape his trauma by sending him to jail, putting in into debts, breaking his legs...

All that narrative about abuse and trauma, just to end up with a romanticized relationship between and abuser and his victim (because yes, what Tj did is abuse)

That's not "sense" that's just straight up fujoshi fetishist narrative