Anonymous #1 1d

See and that’s not so bad bc they’re at least close in age and that was a different time this book is supposed to take place in like a modern age and the idea of someone who’s a legal adult kissing a high schooler icks me out a bit seeing as I’ve just finished my first year of college and could not imagine engaging like that with someone under the age of 18 yk

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Anonymous OP 1d

how long have they known each other?

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Anonymous #1 1d

Since she was 8 and he was like 13 which idk if that really makes it better or worse

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Anonymous #2 1d

Dirty like Brody by Jaine Diamond which is the technical second book of the Dirty like Me series and I liked the first book so I got the second and this was in it

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Anonymous #1 1d

Lots of grandmas got married as young teens, often against their consent. 15 and 20 is gross. And I say that as someone married to a person 9 years older than me. But we were both adults when we met. The mental maturity of a 15 yo vs 20 is super significant. And it was never okay, often even frowned on in the past more than modern narrative likes to paint it, for a whole ass adult of multiple years to marry and knock up a child. Like that’s illegal in many places for a reason.

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Anonymous #1 23h

Yeah that’s still uncool. Your grandma literally didn’t have a choice. It’s the same argument like “couples were happier back in the early 1900s, no one got divorced” yeah because women couldn’t have their own bank account. Or credit card. Or buy a house. They’d get beat if they talked back or asked for more.

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Anonymous #4 23h

You would think she was trying to make a point about it being gross but no. 😐 I think the point was to be like they’ve always had a connection even when they were young which skeeves me the hell out 😵‍💫 I just wanted a casual romance book while I’m waiting for my serial killer romance book to come 😭 like depictions of murders are easier to get through than this 💀 luckily it was just a flashback and not too long but like knowing that information makes the rest of the book a hard read

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Anonymous OP 23h

i’m writing a wholesome sfw slice of life between a ex seal and an appalachian milkmaid

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Anonymous #1 17h

sounds like some tradwife shit

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Anonymous #1 4h

My grandpa started dating my grandmother when he was 22 and she was 15 then got married the day after she graduated high school and he went on to abuse her and she had to take birth control in secret because he got her pregnant immediately the first time and immediately after their first kid was born… ngl i really hate the whole “it was normal back then” argument because those marriages were typically always abusive

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Anonymous #6 4h

i didn’t say they aren’t bad, i was trying to provide an explanation. my bad:

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Anonymous #1 4h

Yeah but the “it’s not the worst thing in the world” comment did seem a bit like you’re saying it’s justifiable

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Anonymous #6 4h

that wasn’t my intention

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