The Importance of Friends in the Experiment

I don't think Lexi or Mal really went into it being like I'm going to try to see if I can love this other person or at least date this other person. They both just admired each other's qualities a lot and we're just constantly affirming each other so they didn't really ask each other to like grow in any of the ways that they're a challenge for their long term partners right exactly? Can we talk about Mal's friend who is just like what the fuck are you doingYeah leave it to friends to keep your character like I always have friends like yeahFriends are character keepers like they can totally just call you out being like I know that you're in this