Fans have spent ages worrying that Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian will get back together despite his hurtful cheating scandals.
Tristan isn't helping matters by being hugely and openly thirsty for Khloe on social media. See for yourself:
While most of us have the good sense to dread allergy season and the onslaught of warmer weather, Khloe is actually hyped for it.
Well, she's from Southern California, where winter just means rain. And she also has products to sell.
"Blink and it will be summer," Khloe ominously warns her followers on Instagram.
Alongside her caption, she shares a tantalizing mirror selfie of herself wearing a white two-piece bathing suit.
"Stay ready," Khloe suggests, "so you never have to get ready."
"Two piece Active Intimate set," she labels her outfit.
It is of course from her own clothing brand, Good American, which she tags.
The selfie is hot AF, and run-of-the-mill fans aren't the only ones who think so.
Here, in full context, you can see Tristan Thompson's comment for yourself.
"Saucy," he writes under the two-piece bikini thirst trap posted by his second baby mama.
He follows that with an emoji face journey: sticking out his tongue, drooling, heart eyes, and then wagging his tongue while winking.
The long and short of it? This pic makes Tristan horny, and he wants everyone to know about it.
His improvised emoji ahegao face journey aside, Tristan was not the only one singing Khloe's praises in the comments.
Kylie and Kourtney both offered their public encouragement.
(Kourtney's was in complete sentences, of all things! Bless her, but it's a good reminder that she's technically Gen X)
Still, given Tristan and Khloe's very complicated personal history, it was Tristan being horny on main that caught people's eye.
Tristan has been openly thirsty for Khloe on Instagram for ages. It's not a surprise -- they have a kid together.
It just tends to weird out fans, considering that he publicly humiliated her with his cheating multiple times.
On her birthday, last November, Tristan praised her as "perfection."
Actions speak louder than words, and since his actions seem to say that "any hole will do," a lot of fans are miffed that he's still barking up her tree.
But Khloe has repeatedly defended Tristan's role in her complicated life.
"He's True's daddy," she wrote in a tweet last December.
Khloe opined: "She deserves to have a loving and awesome father."
Sometimes, children of divorce and people who lose a parent while they're young (Khloe is both) overinflate the importance of that parental role.
Khloe also tweeted to fans that "co-parenting so well right now" with Tristan.
"Tristan is amazing to her," she wrote about his role as a father. "She deserves that."
"We all make mistakes in life and none of us are perfect," Khloe hugely understated.
"I'm not gonna hold on to that negativity," she explained, "because it will only hurt myself & the energy that I get to my child."
In other words, Khloe is a victim of two psychological forces that are pushing her to remain close with a shameless cheater.
The first is the personal and cultural pressure to stay close with her baby daddy under the impression that it's an intrinsic good for True.
The other is that L.A. is basically a cult where things like astrology, "wellness" diets, and floofy "forgiveness" mumbo-jumbo are all the rage.
You don't have to forgive the people who wrong you. Contrary to what goofy people say, that only helps them -- not you.