Had this funny thought of mind had to share 🤣
Edit: Here is my thought process the partner would be the scientists who keeps releasing statistics/ safe word that we’re heading to doom. The other partner would be the us who consume this statistics and suppose to interpretate this appropriately to slow down/stop. But instead to continue ahead with what we’re doing anyway. Both parties know that there is something bad but none of the parties can’t stop it. Hopefully that made sense.
It’s more like one partner knows the word and has been repeatedly screaming it for the past 60+ years but the other partner refuses to stop because they care more about their short term gratification than any consequences of their actions.