I understand both parties have their own trauma and need to work through it (preferably with a therapist) so I'm not bothered by the psychological factors the author based this story. However my main issue with the ML is that the entire time he was with the MC he was thinking of another person.
Every touch, interaction, and conversation he was imagining someone else through him. Regardless of if the person he was thinking of is fictional or not, this just means he never interacted with or thought of MC sincerely as an individual and his own person. All the time spent together and every moment he spent with the MC has technically been fake.
Nothing about their relationship has been real on the ML's end. It has always been another he imagined and that is where I find a fundamental issue with their relationship and why I don't truly want them together as a couple. Either they get time apart and grow and then meet again to start fresh or please have the MC end up with someone else and the ML get the therapy he definitely needs.
I understand both parties have their own trauma and need to work through it (preferably with a therapist) so I'm not bothered by the psychological factors the author based this story. However my main issue with the ML is that the entire time he was with the MC he was thinking of another person.
Every touch, interaction, and conversation he was imagining someone else through him. Regardless of if the person he was thinking of is fictional or not, this just means he never interacted with or thought of MC sincerely as an individual and his own person. All the time spent together and every moment he spent with the MC has technically been fake.
Nothing about their relationship has been real on the ML's end. It has always been another he imagined and that is where I find a fundamental issue with their relationship and why I don't truly want them together as a couple. Either they get time apart and grow and then meet again to start fresh or please have the MC end up with someone else and the ML get the therapy he definitely needs.