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Really getting way more out of the Frank and Maggie as abusive parents plot point than I expected. He sure knows how to keep suckerpunching me with the reality of how dark people can get/be.

Nope you don't get to pull an I hate saying bitch and then still use it. Nope

Ugh and I'm sure he's going to get some character development but this is gross

I hate the way she frames it (but I have hated this from the outset)

Okay why does no one ever have impulse control?

I'm going to choose to read this as anxiety so that I can accept this stupid framing that she should feel guilty about this. She shouldn't.

I am not a fan of supervising adults dancing a kids' dances in romances

I'm a simple woman I will always laugh at this kind of joke

I get that he's still in the grieving process but no. Just fucking no. That whole I could have had everything the same but with two kids makes my skin crawl because not with timeline of his wife's death no he couldn't

Okay that felt weird and out of left field

Probably not the most disgusting description of kissing I've ever read, but definitely top 10.

That was in no way an overreaction to his lies. I really don't like the dynamic here. He's manipulative AF

Little Mr. "I hate liars" lying again

I'm with Ivan on this. The fuck?

Ah yes there we go. Morgan has no impulse control. That was bad. Now I see why everyone who's read this hates her.

Ah yes. They went on a public date, they secretly make out around the school all the time (obviously someone saw them) and yet the issue is Morgan telling discreet friends.

I get that this is clearly supposed to start the misunderstanding part of the plot, but it's just so dumb (the only way to take that statement is badly)

I think at some point I have to consider the possibility I'm deliberately hate-reading the entirety Jennifer Dugan's work

Oh little Mr. "I hate lying" lies all the time. Go figure

I can already see how this is going to be framed. So in advance this is going to be bullshit if he takes it as a lie that she doesn't tell him he inspired a coping mechanism when she was a teenager

If this ends up being another Jennifer Dugan book where I end up hating the main character...

I'm giving this a chance but the level of abuse already. If this keeps up I'm not sure I can handle it. This is a lot for the "romantic comedy" the blurb claims it is.

"Despite the best efforts of the attending physician Michael emerged neither dead, nor brain damaged." Seriously? Because the doctor had to ask who to prioritise if something went wrong (which is a legit thing). Way to suggest the doctor was actively trying to kill a child during birth.

Dear Abby, I am concerned about the allosexuals