Status Updates From A Beau for Katie (The Amish...

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Okay. Well. That happened.

These two are both idiots.

These two are both idiots.

This 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' shit.

Ugh. These two. UGH.

I don't understand this guy at all. If you wanted a walking definition of 'mansplain,' this is it. It's ridiculous.

What a dick. I can't believe she wants to marry this dick.

UGH. I think these two will have a terrible marriage.

...flung herself at him, neatly missing his cast and wrapping his arms around his neck and kissing him full on the mouth.
...
She broke off and kissed him again, this time a tender and sweet caress.

Then she apologizes because that was 'inappropriate.'

He's so fragile in his masculinity. I think that's what is making things worse.

Animal-lover

There were issues with Katie's forceful personality that worried him. He didn't want to repeat his parents' mistakes in their marriage. His mother had ruled the house, making all the decisions while his father did whatever she told him. Was that what he wanted?

She's agreed to take correction from him. So she can be the perfect slave, I guess. Wife! I meant "wife."

"I never supposed that speaking directly was such an affront to men."

Sigh. I just can't with the patriarchy in this book. It's crushing.

More patriarchy garbage. Too long to type out.

He's impressed she reads National Geographic.

Men were supposed to stick together.

Gross.

It was Katie's unnatural nature that made her less than what a proper woman should be. She was too quick to question a man's judgment, and too set in her own ways.

Fuck you, asshole.

"Men do hate having women show them how to do something easier," Ivy said. "I'm afraid it's born in them. In some ways, I don't believe any of them ever grow up. They're like little boys in grownup clothing." She chuckled. "They never get past the age of wanting a woman to take care of them and clean up after them."

What a fucking disgusting way to view men. Fucking patriarchal trash thinking.

She shaves him.

And she'd found with her father and brothers that small steps worked best with men. You had to make them think ideas were their own. Otherwise, they tended to balk and turn mulish.

Fucking patriarchy. "Men are like children. They can't stand being told what to do by a woman, so women need to manipulate them into doing what they want. Men are stupid and like children. Yet they are in charge of everything."

"I imagine you'll be wanting dinner at noon," she said to Freeman, careful not to look directly at his face and into those striking golden eyes.

Word up.

For an eligible bachelor who owned a house, a mill and two hundred acres of prime land to remain single into his midthirties was almost unheard of among the Amish. Add to that Freeman's rugged good looks and good standing with his bishop and his church community. It made him the catch of the county, several counties for that matter. They could have him. She was a rational person, not a giggling teenager who could