Since I managed to find something that I wrote earlier, let me post it.
Rachel: I don’t know, I don’t know. Urrrgh! Look, maybe we should take a break.Ross: Okay, okay, fine, you’re right. Let’s ah, let’s take a break, (goes to the door) let’s cool off, okay, let’s get some frozen yogart, or something.. (opens the door)Rachel: No. (Ross is standing in the doorway.) A break from us.
Ross suggests a break as a cooling off period, and Rachel rejects it
Chandler: So, what are you doing here? I thought tonight was your big anniversary dinner.Ross: Yeah, little change in plans. Ahh, we’re gonna break-up instead.
Rachel: Hi, it’s me. I’ve been trying to reach you all night. I feel awful. Please, Ross, you gotta know there is nothing between me and Mark. This whole break-up thing is just stupid. Eh, I’m just so sorry I put you through it. And, I y'know, I don’t want to get back together over a machine. So, I love you.And y'know what, I’m gonna, I’m gonna go to bed now, but ah, on my way to work tomorrow morning, I’m gonna stop by around 8:30.
Rachel knows that Ross thinks she is having sex with Mark, and they are therefore broken up. What else could Ross possibly think with Mark in the apartment right after the argument?
Monica: How’s the big anniversary dinner?Rachel: Well, we never actually got to dinner.Monica: Ohhh, nice.Rachel: No, we kinda broke up instead.Monica: What?! Rachel: God, Monica it’s on the ceiling.Monica: That’s okay, this is more important than fruit - on my ceiling! You broke up?!Rachel: Yeah, but it’s okay, because when Ross left Mark came over.
Rachel: So what do you say? Can I be your girlfriend again?Ross: Yes, you can, very much.
To summarize, before Ross heard Mark in Rachel's apartment, Rachel thinks she is on a break with Ross. After Ross heard Mark's voice in Rachel's apartment, Rachel knows that she and Ross are broken up.
Ross: Listen. Oh hey, hey, the important thing was that she meant, she meant nothing to me!Rachel: And yet she was worth jeopardizing our relationship!!Ross: Look, I didn’t think there was a relationship to jeopardize. I thought we were broken up.Rachel: We were on a break!Ross: That, for all I knew would, could last forever. That to me is a break-up.Rachel: You think you’re gonna get out of this on a technicality?Ross: Look, I’m not trying to get out of anything, okay. I thought our relationship was dead!Rachel: Well, you sure had a hell of a time at the wake!
That is the first and the last time that Rachel says, "We were on a break." Ross never says they were on a break until later. When Ross says that they were broken up, Rachel does not deny it. She describes it as a "technicality."Rachel does not argue that Ross did not think their relationship was dead. She confirms it by referring to the wake.
Ross: Don’t you realize none of this would’ve ever happened if I didn’t think at that same moment you weren’t having sex with Mark?
Rachel does does understand that; she just does not care.
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