Jake Gyllenhaall is the real toxic boyfriend and Taylor Swift’s All Too Well proves it

I’ll admit it: I spent the whole weekend listening to Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of All Too Well. I was completely fascinated by this alternative arrangement, not to mention the wonderful short, starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, which is the video clip for the song.

However, let’s face it, the other big thing that draws us like a magnet to this song is having revealed new details on Taylor Swift’s love story with Jake Gyllenhaall. Details that made us understand, once and for all, that the actor is the real toxic boyfriend that each * of us has met at least once in our lives. So, thank you Taylor for voicing the story for all of us.

Let’s proceed in order: the famous scarf that the singer would have left at the house of Maggie, the actor’s sister. As someone on Twitter pointed out, Gyllenhaall continued to wear it months later, with absolute nonchalance. I have an ex who for months continued to put on a bracelet that I had given him and that made me delude that he cared about me and who we had left for who knows what fate of fate, then I discovered that he did not even remember that I had given it to him. It is exactly the same case.

After this fairly well-known story, it is the turn of a lesser-known one. In the short, the episode of a dinner with friends is reported in its entirety in which the actor who plays Jake completely ignores the actress who plays Taylor. Highlight of the evening: he who moves her hand when he tries to take it. Result? Like any toxic boyfriend, he makes her feel guilty, clearly telling her that she is wrong and that she has blown it up and then apologizes without too much conviction. Raise your hand to anyone who hasn’t happened at least once such a thing.

Then it is the turn – you can see it both in the video and you can also hear it in the song – of two closely related facts: he introducing himself to her father, doing everything to please himself, suggesting that it is a serious matter, but then he disappears on his birthday (which Taylor had already recounted in Red). For the show, I’m there but not too much to keep you on the edge of your seat. This behavior is in the first paragraph of the first chapter of toxic relationships.

And we close with a flourish with the details on the break up. As we know, Jake and Taylor broke up after three months. From the video we understand that everything was quite sudden and that the reason was the age difference between two (9 years). As Tay Tay sings: “I’m getting old but your mistresses are still the same age.” Therefore, everything suggests that that was not the problem, rather that it was an excuse, something that is impossible to argue with because there is no kind of possible solution. Then, obviously, a great classic, followed by the repentant phone calls that make people suffer even more.

In short, Taylor Swift has given a voice to all of us who have stumbled on our path * in these people who have left us more sad memories than happy. However, they are also a godsend: they help us understand what we want from our next partner and what it means to have a healthy relationship. If we run into a tip * like this again, let’s listen to All Too Well again: a good reminder to avoid making senseless choices again.