I already know how the plot is going to go, and I don't think that's love. It feels more like he only realizes her value once she's gone and no longer available to him. If he truly loved her, why did it take years, and why only after she's become successful, attractive, and desirable in everyone else's eyes?
To me, she'll always feel like the second choice. He spent so long emotionally fixated on someone else that it makes his feelings now seem less like love and more like regret, loneliness, or wanting back what he lost.
It's like a man who leaves his wife for another woman and then comes back years later. People call it romantic because he "came back," coming back doesn’t erase his original choice, it's that he left in the first place. If he made that choice once, what's to say he wouldn't make it again?
I want her to find someone who chooses her first, not someone who only notices her worth after she's already moved on.
I already know how the plot is going to go, and I don't think that's love. It feels more like he only realizes her value once she's gone and no longer available to him. If he truly loved her, why did it take years, and why only after she's become successful, attractive, and desirable in everyone else's eyes?
To me, she'll always feel like the second choice. He spent so long emotionally fixated on someone else that it makes his feelings now seem less like love and more like regret, loneliness, or wanting back what he lost.
It's like a man who leaves his wife for another woman and then comes back years later. People call it romantic because he "came back," coming back doesn’t erase his original choice, it's that he left in the first place. If he made that choice once, what's to say he wouldn't make it again?
I want her to find someone who chooses her first, not someone who only notices her worth after she's already moved on.