Two more things I noticed. In the beginning they focused on both them making love in their daughter's room and the baby seat in the car.... what's absent? THEIR BABY. In season one, that was the main glue that kept them together for the most part. They were very dysfunctional, but their daughter, Loddie, was always present in some fashion. We haven't seen her daughter AT ALL this season and even worse, it was only mentioned in passing in this episode to which Van took as an insult. She didn't want to be referred as "Loddie's mom" because she disliked the fact that she is being viewed as a "baby mama" and nothing more. So, the very thing that kept them bonded in the beginning is now absent which made their relationship broken.
The 2nd thing is how this contrast from a SIMILAR episode in season one where Earn was dragged into one of Van's social events with that interracial couple in which the husband was a white liberal that was overtly apologetic of the plight of the black man. Keep in mind in THAT episode, Earn and Van weren't even together. Van had to pick him up at another chick's house that he done smashed. And he had to pretend that they were together for the sake of Loddie. Earn's attitude at that party was NO DIFFERENT as it was in last night's episode. To the point that Earn even had to call that shyt out as bullshyt for real which arguably costed Van her opportunity of employment. The funny thing was that Van at that time was turned on by his "fukk this shyt" stance and they ended up smashing at the end.