In fact, I think Lorelai and Rory's estrangement is one of the show's most realistic and important plotlines. Yes, Rory's behavior leading up to their fight was totally out of character and irresponsible — but that's the entire point. Even the best-intentioned, most "together" people lose their way sometimes and make irrational, selfish decisions. Several years after these episodes aired, I found myself in a similar situation as Rory.
It didn't involve stealing a yacht or dropping out of college, but I hit a rough patch in my personal life and I resorted to a number of unhealthy, dangerous coping mechanisms. Like Lorelai, my mom rightfully gave me some tough love and called me out on my behavior.
And, like Rory, I wasn't ready to face the reality that I'd made some huge mistakes and needed to work hard to rectify them. My mom's honest words sent me into a frenzy because I knew deep down that she was right — so I responded in the most selfish way possible and stopped speaking to her.
I wasn't ready to fix the aspects of my life that I'd broken, or even acknowledge that I'd totally lost my way. Thankfully, our period of not speaking was far shorter than Lorelai and Rory's, but it was the longest, most painful three weeks of my life. Though my friends did their best to comfort me, most of them didn't understand that three weeks feels like an eternity to someone who is accustomed to speaking to her mom at least once a day.
Our fight loomed over me and it was all I thought about, but my stubbornness prevented me from calling my mom and admitting that I'd messed up and I needed her. When Lorelai encounters Rory doing her community service for stealing a yacht with Logan the two have a brief but heated discussion. Lorelai's angry that Rory's living large in her grandparent's pool house, turning to them when Lorelai spent most of her life heading in the opposite direction.
Rory's hot and bothered Lorelai couldn't at least tell her about the engagement. Both don't talk to each other so much as at each other, and their interaction ends as abruptly as it begins.
Nothing gets resolved, and the cycle of hurt and anger just keeps spinning. Following her breakup with Dean during season 1, Rory falls into a serious funk. Making matters worse is the fact that the charm of small-town life gives way to irritation when everyone assumes Dean broke her heart, but it's the other way around, something Rory prefers to keep to herself.
Also keeping secrets is Lorelai who is rekindling her romance with Max: a tidbit of info Rory gets from him instead of her mom.
It leads to a nasty confrontation between Lorelai and Rory, sending Rory running to her grandparents without giving Lorelai a heads up. Having Rory disappear without so much as a note is rough, but Emily's smugness and interference prolong the fight. Rory's decision to run away is selfish and irresponsible, but it's where she chooses to go that breaks Lorelai's heart. It's Jess who pushes her to write a book. Rory informs Lorelai the subject of this non-fiction opus is about their journey as mother and daughter, and Lorelai's life before Rory's birth.
Lorelai tells Rory she's free to write about her side of their story, but Lorelai has kept certain aspects of her life private, and she doesn't want them exposed to the world. It is presumptuous of Rory to assume it's okay to write about Lorelai without coming to her first. Rory marginalizes Lorelai's feelings because she's determined that all of a sudden this is her dream, and Lorelai has no right to deter her.
Lorelai urges her Rory to attend her very first formal with Dean. Rory and Dean cement their status as boyfriend-girlfriend but accidentally spend their first night together. If I ever alluded to the fact that my mom was a bitch TBH, you know that never happened, because I am still alive to write this very article. This is why parents shouldn't be friends with their kids when they're kids; wait 'til y'all are both legally allowed to drink before you become BFFs.
The WB. Lorelai and Rory have this "woe is me; help me, I'm poor" mentality when: 1. They live in a huge house. They constantly eat out instead of buying groceries.
In the season 5 finale, though, she goes to her grandparents instead. Although the betrayal leaves deep wounds that impact much of the next season, Rory and Lorelai ultimately patch things up. The love between mother and daughter can't be permanently destroyed, and Rory eventually realizes she needs to go back to Yale.
Even so, Rory left a mark with her decisions at the end of season 5. It was proof that the bond between the Gilmore girls was strong but that there were decisions they could make that would shake it to its core. Rory leaving Yale was the ultimate betrayal because Yale was the thing that she and her mother had been working toward for her entire life.
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