I didn’t think it was possible for the side stories to be the thing that make me hate an ML but here we are. If my partner went behind my back with my parents and friends about my own outing and then did not inform me I’d be pissed. That isn’t some big romantic gesture, it’s grounds for a breakup. In a real relationship that sort of coddling would be so manipulative and isolating. The author romanticizing that sort of toxic possessiveness by making the mc be all “haha wow that must mean he really likes me” gives me the ick
I didn’t think it was possible for the side stories to be the thing that make me hate an ML but here we are. If my partner went behind my back with my parents and friends about my own outing and then did not inform me I’d be pissed. That isn’t some big romantic gesture, it’s grounds for a breakup. In a real relationship that sort of coddling would be so manipulative and isolating. The author romanticizing that sort of toxic possessiveness by making the mc be all “haha wow that must mean he really likes me” gives me the ick