Okay, I didn't want to do this, but because I have a complete inability to let things go, I have to. This is a response to a review I got for this fic, by an anonymous reviewer (of course). Their review for this fic was "Yeah right it's all kurt's fault."

Insert eye roll here.

Okay, where to begin? Um, no. Nowhere in this fic did I explicitly or implicitly say that anything that happened here was entirely Kurt's fault. That's the short answer: You are wrong.

But I am voluble by nature, so the short answer is never enough for me. Because I'm not entirely sure if the "it" you are referring to is Blaine's decision to have an affair or the fight featured in this fic, I will discuss both and explain, as plainly as I can, why you are wrong.

Blaine's decision to cheat not being "all [K]urt's fault" is an easy concept to understand. Kurt did not, after all, undress Blaine and stick him in bed with Eli. I'm not an idiot. However, to absolve Kurt of all responsibility for the events leading up to his break-up with Blaine would be foolish and unfair. It takes two people to make a (monogamous) relationship work, and therefore it takes two people to make such a relationship fall apart. Late season three and early season four clearly showed that Blaine and Kurt had communication issues; both have insecurities regarding certain issues, such as feelings of being left behind and worries about the future, and they have trouble discussing them with each other. This led Blaine to pull away from Kurt when he was planning his future at NYADA, and thus to Kurt seeking emotional comfort from Chandler, and thus Blaine having intense (and rightful) feelings of jealousy. Do you see what happened here? Instead of talking to Kurt about feeling left behind, Blaine pulled away. Instead of talking to Blaine about feeling ignored, Kurt went to Eli. Both of them screwed up. If they had just kept the lines of communication open between them, this wouldn't have been a problem.

So let's go to season four. Kurt's living his big life in the city, kicking ass at Vogue and settling in with Rachel. Because of this, he actively makes the decision to reduce the amount of communication he has with Blaine. This seems like a reasonable decision, but as far as we know Kurt never told Blaine that he was making this decision. As we saw in season three, Blaine has issues with feeling like he's being left behind, which he quite obviously feels when Kurt repeatedly dismisses his calls and virtually ignores him on Skype. Does this excuse Blaine's choice to seek comfort elsewhere? Of course not. Blaine's emotional shutdown in season three did not excuse Kurt purposefully and obviously flirting with Chandler behind Blaine's back. But just like Kurt's emotional infidelity was not solely Kurt's fault, neither was Blaine's physical infidelity solely Blaine's. Both of them made conscious decisions that led to some form of cheating. Both. Of. Them. With the exception of, like, murder, it takes both individuals in a relationship to make it or break it. Both Kurt and Blaine played a hand in the break-up in season four, and if you can't see that, you have an immature view of relationships.

One more point I have to make about this before moving on to the fight in this fic: When Kurt cheated on Blaine-and he did; emotional infidelity is just as real and just as painful as physical infidelity-he defended himself, claiming that the exchange he had with Chandler was perfectly innocent when it quite clearly wasn't. When Blaine cheated on Kurt, his first action (that we saw, at least) was to fly out to New York and confess. I'm not saying that this makes either one better than the other; on the contrary, I think it shows how much they grew as a couple between the two events. During the Chandler debacle, Kurt and Blaine could not see eye to eye, and Blaine was incredibly hurt that Kurt couldn't see why he was upset. When the tables were turned and Blaine was the one who hurt Kurt, Blaine already knew what it was like to be ignored and to be told that his feelings weren't valid, so he was determined not to make Kurt feel the way he once felt. He took a past experience and used it make better decisions than they as a couple made in the past. Again, that does not excuse nor make up for what he did. I am merely making a commentary on their evolutions as individuals and as a couple.

Now, if the "it" you were referring to in your review was the fight that Kurt and Blaine have in Past Tense, again I would have to tell you, quite plainly, that you are wrong in your assertion that "it" is all Kurt's fault. Kurt began the argument, true, because of (surprise surprise) feelings of insecurity and doubt. Spoiler alert: All people feel these things, and they creep up on us at the worst of times and in the worst of ways. No one is immune, not even your favorite fictional characters (and if they are, then that's how you know they're truly fictional). This doesn't discount Blaine's contributions to the fight. Both of them said angry things to each other, dredging up the past in the process. But Blaine had the right to defend himself when Kurt accused him of something he didn't do. Kurt and Blaine both contributed to the fight, so it wasn't "all [K]urt's fault," thought I think it's fair to say that Kurt played a bigger role in causing it than Blaine.

Of course, I don't expect you to ever read this, "Guest," because you neither liked nor followed the story, and you couldn't even be bothered to log in or give a name. But that's okay, because this wasn't for you. This is for all of the people who found it so easy to jump ship when Blaine cheated on Kurt, like Kurt never made a mistake, like his actions didn't play a role in the dismantling of their relationship. I love Kurt, I love Blaine, I'm not playing favorites here. I'm trying to make people wake up and look at reality. Both Kurt and Blaine are flawed people. Both Kurt and Blaine made mistakes. Both Kurt and Blaine contributed to their temporary break-up. So many previous Klainers refused to see that because they're primarily Kurt-stans, and I get it. I'm a stan too. But that doesn't cloud my ability to compartmentalize and look at a situation logically and objectively, and evaluate the actions that lead to results. I don't appreciate being accused of assigning all the blame for a situation to one character, because that is shallow, unrealistic, and one-dimensional, and I certainly don't think I've earned being characterized as any of those things. So I'll thank you to put a little more thought into your interpretations of the plots of Glee and into your reviews of my fics. I work very hard on them and do not take my representations of RIB's characters lightly.

Thank you and have a good day.