Ngl I stopped reading it after like 20 chapters where Amber kept hurting himself to guilt trip the older guy. I can't stomach it when someone uses selfharm as a way to coerce something from others. ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍
My ex of 3 month threatened me with suicide over 3 times and made me feel like shit all the while stalking me and harassing me online through his friend's discord accounts for 3 month, blamed me for his alcoholism, for getting sent to hospital for his health worsening, everything. It made me feel like shit and I still have issues because of that.
(I broke up with him because he was too obsessed with me and was getting sick trying to accomodate me which I asked him to stop but he didn't listen, so I ended it before if went worse...or I hoped so but he blew up and went ballistic on me)
So I really hate it when it's used as a plot for romance.
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Idk, I guess as someone who's been through self-harm. He did try to hide it, and didn't use it as an excuse to keep him tied down. Not initially. I think people do get to a point though where they break. It's not a good thing, but it is human. Especially when both of them have so much trauma. Ash wanted to solve it together. I mean thinking about it Tennessee was a lonely person who didn't believe he could be loved, let alone what that felt like. I can't say they're perfect but I think their puzzle pieces fit each other's.
Your ex was insane though, on another level, you should not have had to go through that.
I'm not blaming him for his SH don't get me wrong i understand sometimes people see no better way out. I had toughts of it a lot of times, but never acted on it in the end. I just felt like he used it to manipulate Tennessee and that's why I said its something that's not my cup of tea. I don't like to see it romanticised but I can understand that it can be interesting to see as a story of 2 broken person finding a way to make eachother whole but in a biiit twisted way.
i feel bad for you... but amber self-harmed to cope with his childhood trauma and calm his thoughts. he didn't do it to make tennessee stay with him. he actually tried to hide it, but tennessee had a bad feeling, so he went to check on him. amber genuinely felt bad about it, too.
but, in my perspective, tennessee fell in love with amber because amber took good care of him after his accident and understood him even when he was difficult to understand.
so, yeah, that's just my perspective, but i understand how you feel about it, too. i understand what you mean, and i respect your perspective as well. i just saw amber's situation differently because, for me, he wasn't doing it to manipulate tennessee. but i get why it might come across that way to you, especially if you don't like seeing self-harm romanticized in stories.
i suggest you try to finish reading it because it's actually good! it's more of a comedy for me, though, haha.
It was a romantic one in a medieval fantasy setting the part i remember is where the main couple got tgt already and a side couple was about to get married. But the husband side of the family was loud ignorant rude and disrespectful, using the husband and discarding him, then coming back crawling like pest to once again take advantage of him. He was recently given a title and thats why he could marry the noble girl he liked. Help me find it pls. I think the main character was the woman in the main couple and the woman in the side couple is her sister i think.
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I really want to reread it but I lost it among the 100 other I read that are similar
IM SMELLING A RUSHED ENDING and I'm not happy about it....(〜 ̄△ ̄)〜