[ SECRET POST #2357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2357 ⌋

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Comments

[iceyred]

Same. I hate it when character met their Wan Twu Wuv at eighteen or younger.

The people I knew who got married at 18 were divorced a year later.

[intrigueing]

I love it when people who met the person they later got married happily to when they were young. I also love it when they think they're going to be happy forever and it doesn't work out, or when people don't meet the person they later got married happily to for a long time. I have read great examples of both types of couples.

On the other hand, in some stories marrying your childhood sweetheart can be written as boring, forced, and unrealistic. And in some stories, your childhood sweetheart not working out can come across as obnoxious, aggressively cynical, and condescending or offensive towards people who did meet a person they were happy with early.

It entirely depends on whether the relationship is written believably and interestingly or feels forced by a narrow-minded agenda of the author's.

I really don't get why everyone's obliged to have one type of story they like and therefore automatically dislike the opposite.

[iceyred]

Part of it is because of how I saw it play out in real life. I just suspend my disbelief that much. Mermaids, vampires, time travel, that's all good. Meeting the love of your life at 18 or younger? Sorry, that's a no-go.

[intrigueing]

I guess that makes sense. I definitely understand the "luridly fantastical=OK, contradictory to what you've personally experienced IRL=nope" thing, although I can't think of any examples of my own.

[miarrow]

Wonderfully put!

[(Anonymous)]

My partner's bro got married at 18. They're dedicated Christians. She ran off with some dude interstate for a while. Now they've got 3 neurotic kids, she's medicated up to the hilt, and he's an ape. (But their relationship is sooo much more important, valid and romantic than my 14 year queer one with his sister and our kid!)

I had a friend in school whose parents were childhood sweethearts. She insisted it all turned out great, and statistically it must happen from time to time!

[(Anonymous)]

And I know multiple people who married the person they were into when they were in middle school and have managed to stay together and be happy well into middle age.

Personal experience doesn't mean a goddamn thing, and if you had half a brain in that empty little head of yours, you'd realize that.