Was reading "A Fate Inked in Blood", and found myself being unable to focus on the intimate scenes because all I could think about was how terrible I've been treated by men. Like this incredible ideal of a man, and of a hetero relationship where the woman is not just treated well, but worshiped, is so idyllic, it felt like staring at the moon. Beautiful but impossible to touch. Like it almost hurts. Anyone else feel this way? Like the world feels impossibly broken, sometimes I get lost in it, and these stories of how things could be, how they could be better, feel so impossible. It feels hopeless. Also what should I read next after "A Fate inked in blood" ????🤗
by Stay_awkward_
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I don’t read romance because I have rarely (if ever) found one that is a realistic portrayal of romantic partnership. It creates this unattainable vision of what romance is like, when the reality is far messier and less linear.
I’m sorry you’ve been terribly treated; to me, it sounds like you could do some soul searching on loving yourself and building up your own self worth so that in the future you refuse to be treated poorly by anyone because you value yourself too greatly.