User blog comment:HELO/I Love You, Ashley--Now Stop Punishing Me for It/@comment-1388547-20120419045907

I was fairly annoyed by how that worked out in ME3. I got *really, really* tired of waiting for her to get over her trust issues -- not to mention the awkward game design that left her hung over semiconscious in her quarters for a good chunk of the game after drinking too much of Jimmy Vega's booze. (I went into her quarters, and couldn't see her, so I assumed the game had bugged out. It was a good 6-8 hours of play time later that I realized she was laying behind some furniture.  Couldn't the designers have made her, I don't know, groan or something so I knew she was there?)

Anyway, yeah, it took way too long to get her trust back, and the remainder of the romance seemed fairly perfunctory. It was especially painful because I was trying to stay true to an apparently stone-cold Ashley, while it became increasingly obvious that Liara still had a gigantic crush on me. Ashley simply wasn't worth the wait, and my future playthroughs with Shepards who romanced her in ME1 are going to leave her in favor of Liara in ME3.