I mean, I agree but can also see how some people might run into doing that because a. Pearl herself certainly romanticizes it (though I think that its not the narrative's pov, just her own) and b. its hard to get a grasp on them since we have only seen their past relationship in glimpses, and presently Pearl has still not dealt with her loss and seems not to be handling grief well, which isn't healthy but is certainly understandable.