>Connie has sex with an asshole and enters an open relationship
>learns from her mistake
Okay, so Bobby moves on from her and they stay friends? That's the issue. Bobby should realistically have a girlfriend loyal to him who didn't know him in childhood but suddenly realism doesn't matter, so Connie can get her safety net white husband. Wonder Years did this ages ago with the MC as an adult having a wife not be his childhood crush and it worked.