How does Buffy “bear half the blame” for her relationship with Riley failing?
He is the one who couldn’t cope with his girlfriend being stronger and more durable than he was; he is the one who decided to try and find what she saw so attractive in the night… by going out and getting suckjobs from vampire whores. And he bitches that he’s not getting any attention from her when she clearly has a hell of a lot on her plate already, what with her mother being seriously ill and a hellgod being after her sister. Buffy, on the other hand… tried to hold back on her strength and act more feminine, to try and ease the concern she could sense from him. She was openly devoted to him and never cheated on him (despite her mixed feelings about Spike; in fact, her main argument when Riley admits that he’s jealous after Angel breezes through Sunnydale is “have I ever given you any reason not to trust me?”). She tried to cut back on the slaying, to try and treat it as just a job (the way it was to him) but failed because it’s not a job for her – it’s a calling; she can’t just
