Ross and Rachel: On a Break or Not?

Ross and Rachel: on a break or not?

Everyone who has ever loved FRIENDS knows of the dreaded “break” situation. FRIENDS is my absolute favourite television show in the entire world, I watch it literally everyday. Here are my views.

PS: A lot of spoilers are given and even though I’m sure mostly everyone has heard of FRIENDS I know there are still people watching it.

In sort, yes, they were on a break. After their fight Rachel states: ugh I just think we should take a break!” Yes she suggests it. Ross, being Ross says “fine, lets go get some frozen yoghurt or something?” and then Rachel says “no…I mean a break from us…” Sad music begins playing and Ross looks at her before leaving.(A/N: I don’t actually know the correct quotes I’m just taking this from my mind, I could google the direct quotes but instead lets just roll with it). They never state the consequences/boundaries of their break. In my opinion, before doing this, the general rules of breaks are as follows: no dating other people, no sleeping with other people, and possibly some timeframe of when you’ll re-think the relationship, ie. 3 weeks.

Yet, Ross didn’t wait at all he just slept with the first person who came along. Ross did this mostly because he was hurt and confused. He thought Rachel was with Mark, although that doesn’t give him an excuse. Ross should’ve told Rachel straightaway when he saw her again the next day.

When Rachel and Ross are getting back together down at the beach, Rachel writes the letter to Ross asking him to take the blame for everything that went wrong. This is a tag against Rachel as she still was part of the reason why they split up.

All in all, both parties caused their inevitable break up. But, to answer the question: were they on a break? Yes. They were on a break, not a break-up, they were just simply on a break.