In defending her cheating ways with Baze, Cate actually went as far as to take a page from Ross “We were on a break!” Geller’s playbook by telling Ryan, “I didn’t want to hurt you… You and I weren’t together, we had gotten on the fight on the dock and broke up… I just thought that Lux was going to be a dealbreaker for you. I’m just saying….. technically you and I were not together.” 
