and then she manages to get her revenge. Either by killing them all. Or becoming the queen so they have to grovel at her feet.
Like of course she got pregnant.. Two teens having unprotected sex would lead to that without careful planning. And even then if her cycle is off by a week (cuz that shit changes when it wants sometimes)
Then yeah.. It was bound to happen. But if it didn't maybe they would have had the space to get to know each other better before he was sent off to war? Then again maybe her being pregnant with the next heir is what allowed her to have the political upperhand against that uncle?
Either way she had enough issues to strain her mental health. She got married out of obligation. Her father and father and laws health declined. She has been isolated with only her husband to rely on and he gets sent to war. All that plus pregnancy hormones??? I'm wondering how dark this can get with regards to her mental health. She said she wanted to die after all.
Ahhh this is so sad
So glad that the first chapter was of the divorce. Because without knowing it leads to that.....MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANv
I get how her saying that he was her best choice can be hurtful...But like, how many times have they spoken to each other? LOL
Like they met at his coming of age. He made arrangements for her to meet her sister. She invited him to come to her coming of age but he could not come. Then he sends an engagement letter. Then they meet again at the princess' birthday party.
So what?? If we assume that he took her to meet her sister, that means they have spoken face to face three times?
They are probably about to be married soon too. So no real engagement period.
No shit her feelings surrounding why she married him is that he is her best choice. It isn't like from her pov we saw that she fell in love. She seems to like him well enough at this point in the flashback. But nothing points to love just yet, just like. She gets to help her family's standing. She gets to avoid the messiness of trying to get married after her father dies. And she doesn't have to get married to the creeper.
I guess he may have assumed that she fell for him and that's why she accepted? We don't know enough about his pov back then to know if he fell in love at first sight. But even if he did...logically, he was simply her best choice.
He is about to marry his son off to a girl his son hasn't had a single conversation with, probably because of politics. So I don't know why he is shocked by his wife's assessment of their own marriage.
They are living proof of how getting married too soon (and having children too soon) can fuck shit up. On that experience alone she is right to question this engagement.
Her love starved son is only 15 and getting engaged to what looks like a horrible person for political reasons.
She was a bad mother, but thankfully she has a chance to do something about it now. More so than going shopping and to shows, slowing down this marriage may be the best thing she does for her son.
Her husband is traumatized too. He had to take over for his father at a young age. So he seems to think that forceing all of this responsibility on the son is natural. But it is not, he just had a bad time of things, but he is still young and healthy! He should be able to be the lord of his lands for quite some time. He doesn't have to try and force his kid to grow up super fast.
I actually think marrying young can be incredibly beneficial for couples, because they learn to grow their lives together and have more time to become a unit. Couples who get together much later tend to have a difficult time working as a unit because both spent too much time independent of each other. It's basically trying to force two grow intwined together when they're already too old to do so.
The problem seems here is it seems both got married in a state panic/vulnerability, and then when they felt trapped, both internally shut down and they started to avoid each other with individual coping mechanisms. I think the same thing would've happened if they had the same vulnerable mindsets, even if they were older.
Feeling trapped in the marriage, neither made the choice to properly communicate with their spouse, (communication is something you have to choose to do, not something that naturally comes with age). Had they been honest about their feelings, and then agreed to work as a unit to make the best out of the situation, I think they would've made a decent pair. But at this point, the years of purposefully avoiding each other became habit. The feeling of "why didn't you help me all this time," has tainted everything they do in the relationship. Trust is even more difficult to build between neglectful family than complete strangers.
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Based on experience, I can say that it doesn't work out well. It was very common in my family.
My mother and her 3 sisters got married young, mostly at around the age of 18 and this is how their lives turned out:
-the shortest marriage was my mothers, she suffered finicial and emotional abuse
-The longest marriage was my mothers oldest sisters, she was physically abused and eventually died of cancer. They had about 5 children. (the marriage was arranged in a way)
-My mothers other older sister got married young, they had a very long marriage but they didn't trully love one another. He controlled all the money and refused to give any money towards food (she was a stay at home mother, 4 kids.) Eventually he set the house on fire and they got a divorce later on.
-I have no clue about the last one, but it just wasn't good.
Im not sure about my grandmother but considering that my grandfather refused to allow any money to go towards her cancer treatment, I dont' think it was a great marriage. Oh yeah and she was kinda crazy and abusive. Thankfully she died before I was born, if she didn't then that would have been a nightmare for me.
Honestly, I have never met anyone who got married too soon + had kids too soon that also happened to have a healthy relationship. Even if I consider the people outside my family, their relationships didn't end well either.
Hundreds of otherwise great love stories with the same start. Drunk sex, black out drunk even considering the memory loss.
LoL. What do you mean by that, don't assume something out of the blue like you just crawled out of a rock somewhere. It's a cliché plot, it's been used for so long you didn't even have to guess how far it comes regardless of the artist's origin.
It's not healthy, well some are even worse, but that's why it's called fiction.
They're not supposed to be fine, it shouldn't be normalized as fine, and you should know those are not fine. It's categorized Mature for a reason.
I am 35...I've been reading manga for decades. This has been a thing for ever!
What I mean that it is a cliché plot. A horribly cliché plot. Which is why it actually could be normalized in society because constant media depictions does that. Saying it is fiction doesn't cover it, fiction and media effect our thinking. All cultures have their media trouble spots when it comes to romantic stories. Even generic American romcoms.
It was subtle but she was trying to cover for him this chapter. She did try to speak up for him and told the mom that she wasn't offended by him not entertaining her since he is sick. And tried to convince the mom that they should both leave so that he can rest. Also, unless there is about to be a plot hole, wasn't she surprised that holy water hurts him in that one chapter? So either he fakes this real real well(doubtful considering how weak he already is). Or she manages to redirect the mother's attention and thus makes it so that he doesn't have to drink the water right now. They showed her looking dead at him this chapter. She was probably just noticing how sick he looked.
He apparently has an obsession with not looking weak. Which is understandable considering his shitty family. But not everyone is like his familly...Even now he is super worried about Valrose seeing him in a weak state if he drinks the holy water. He is wondering what she would think of him.
Like dude, she'd think you are very sick??? Or that something was super off about the holy water, like it was tainted or whatever. But that's what abuse does to people sometimes, warps their sense of values. Dark magic may be feared but I'd dare to say that his family is extremely warped with how they are dealing with their "fear".
Also this has to be a big reason why they still don't understand each other, he has never shown weakness to her. Just like the tea situation, he played it off by being a jerk. But never told her about the poison. All to keep up the image.
Like yeah, that way the kiss will look natural on the wedding day....Right practice makes perfect. Its totes for professional reasons tho...totes.